# Proxy Flag for git-clone, push, pull

2 messages from 2023-10-17 to 2023-10-17. Participants: Jaydeep Das, Eric Sunshine.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/60381

## Jaydeep Das, 2023-10-17 05:15

Subject: Proxy Flag for git-clone, push, pull
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To make git work through proxy, we need to set the `http.proxy` config
or need to set `http_proxy` environment variable.

However wouldn't it be better if there was a flag in the command
itself (like npm) which
overrides whatever proxy is set. Something like

git clone --proxy "http://..." <url>

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## Eric Sunshine, 2023-10-17 05:19

Subject: Re: Proxy Flag for git-clone, push, pull
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 1:15 AM Jaydeep Das <jaydeepjd.8914@gmail.com> wrote:
> To make git work through proxy, we need to set the `http.proxy` config
> or need to set `http_proxy` environment variable.
>
> However wouldn't it be better if there was a flag in the command
> itself (like npm) which
> overrides whatever proxy is set. Something like
>
> git clone --proxy "http://..." <url>

The -c option allows you to specify configuration on the command-line, so:

    git -c http.proxy="http://..." clone <url>

should do what you want.

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