From: Tim Michelsen <timmichelsen@gmx-topmail.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:29:16 GMT
Subject: how to clone from github behindd a proxy?
Message-ID: <loom.20100120T102323-689@post.gmane.org>

Hello,
I tried to clone from behind a proxy firewall.

It doesn't work.

How shall I improve?

set GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1

git config --global http.proxy proxy.example.com:8000

git clone http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas
Initialized empty Git repository in D:\sourcecode/traitsbackendpyjamas/.git/
* Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults
* About to connect() to proxy proxy.example.com on port 8000 (#0)
*   Trying 149.233.100.7... * Connected to proxy.example.com (149.233.100.7)
port 8000 (#0)
 GET http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.6.5.1.1366.g8ed9
Host: github.com
Accept: */*
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache

* The requested URL returned error: 404
* Closing connection #0
fatal: http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs not found: did you
run git update-server-info on the server?

Thanks in advance,
Timmie