How to config socks5 proxy on Git

Question

I have problem with downloading the git start link (git://anongit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland) through a proxy on Linux OS.

I am using Git client (http://git-scm.com/download/linux) to download it, and it is successful to download the http link after I config the http.proxy in the .gitconfig file.

But I have tried a lot of ways to config the socks5 proxy for git link, but it didn't work. Does anyone know this?

More info on this:

1. I need to use a socks5 proxy with 1080 port.

2. There are username and password for this socks5 proxy

Answer 1

The patch mentioned by patthoyts in "Using a socks proxy with git for the http transport" will finally make it upstream in Git 2.7 (Dec. 2015)

See commit 6d7afe0 (26 Oct 2015) by Pat Thoyts (patthoyts).
^{(Merged by Jeff King -- peff -- in commit 92b9bf4, 01 Dec 2015)}.

remote-http(s): support SOCKS proxies

With this patch we properly support SOCKS proxies, configured e.g. like this:

git config http.proxy socks5://192.168.67.1:32767

Without this patch, Git mistakenly tries to use SOCKS proxies as if they were HTTP proxies, resulting in a error message like:

fatal: unable to access 'http://.../': Proxy CONNECT aborted

This patch was required to work behind a faulty AP and scraped from Using a socks proxy with git for the http transport and guarded with an appropriate cURL version check by Johannes Schindelin.