How do I pull from a Git repository through an HTT

Question

Note: while the use-case described is about using submodules within a project, the same applies to a normal git clone of a repository over HTTP.

I have a project under Git control. I'd like to add a submodule:

git submodule add http://github.com/jscruggs/metric_fu.git vendor/plugins/metric_fu

But I get

...
got 1b0313f016d98e556396c91d08127c59722762d0
got 4c42d44a9221209293e5f3eb7e662a1571b09421
got b0d6414e3ca5c2fb4b95b7712c7edbf7d2becac7
error: Unable to find abc07fcf79aebed56497e3894c6c3c06046f913a under http://github.com/jscruggs/metri...
Cannot obtain needed commit abc07fcf79aebed56497e3894c6c3c06046f913a
while processing commit ee576543b3a0820cc966cc10cc41e6ffb3415658.
fatal: Fetch failed.
Clone of 'http://github.com/jscruggs/metric_fu.git' into submodule path 'vendor/plugins/metric_fu'

I have my HTTP_PROXY set up:

c:\project> echo %HTTP_PROXY%
http://proxy.mycompany:80

I even have a global Git setting for the http proxy:

c:\project> git config --get http.proxy
http://proxy.mycompany:80

Has anybody gotten HTTP fetches to consistently work through a proxy? What's really strange is that a few project on GitHub work fine (awesome_nested_set for example), but others consistently fail (rails for example).

Answer 1

When your network team does ssl-inspection by rewriting certificates, then using a http url instead of a https one, combined with setting this var worked for me.

git config --global http.proxy http://proxy:8081

Answer 2

The above answers worked for me when my proxy doesn't need authentication. If you are using proxy which requires you to authenticate then you may try CCProxy. I have small tutorial on how to set it up here,

http://blog.praveenkumar.co.in/2012/09/proxy-free-windows-xp78-and-mobiles.html

I was able to push, pull, create new repos. Everything worked just fine. Make sure you do a clean uninstall and reinstall of new version if you are facing issues with Git like I did.

Answer 3

For Windows

Goto --> C:/Users/user_name/gitconfig

Update gitconfig file with below details

[http]

[https]

proxy = https://your_proxy:your_port

[http]

proxy = http://your_proxy:your_port

How to check your proxy and port number?

Internet Explorer -> Settings -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings

Answer 4

Setup proxy to git

command

git config --global http.proxy http://user:password@domain:port

example

git config --global http.proxy http://clairton:[e-mail]:8080

Answer 5

I had the same problem, with a slightly different fix: REBUILDING GIT WITH HTTP SUPPORT

The git: protocol did not work through my corporate firewall.

For example, this timed out:

git clone git://github.com/miksago/node-websocket-server.git

curl github.com works just fine, though, so I know my http_proxy environment variable is correct.

I tried using http, like below, but got an immediate error.

git clone http://github.com/miksago/node-websocket-server.git

->>>  fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'http' <<<-

I tried recompiling git like so:

./configure  --with-curl --with-expat

but still got the fatal error.

Finally, after several frustrating hours, I read the configure file, and saw this:

# Define CURLDIR=/foo/bar if your curl header and library files are in

# /foo/bar/include and /foo/bar/lib directories.

I remembered then, that I had not complied curl from source, and so went looking for the header files. Sure enough, they were not installed. That was the problem. Make did not complain about the missing header files. So I did not realize that the --with-curl option did nothing (it is, in fact the default in my version of git).

I did the following to fix it:

1. Added the headers needed for make:

   yum install curl-devel
   (expat-devel-1.95.8-8.3.el5_5.3.i386  was already installed).
   

2. Removed git from /usr/local (as I want the new install to live there).

   I simply removed git* from /usr/local/share and /usr/local/libexec

3. Searched for the include dirs containing the curl and expat header files, and then (because I had read through configure) added these to the environment like so:

   export CURLDIR=/usr/include 
   export EXPATDIR=/usr/include
   

4. Ran configure with the following options, which, again, were described in the configure file itself, and were also the defaults but what the heck:

   ./configure  --with-curl --with-expat
   

5. And now http works with git through my corporate firewall:

   git clone http://github.com/miksago/node-websocket-server.git
   Cloning into 'node-websocket-server'...
   * Couldn't find host github.com in the .netrc file, using defaults
   * About to connect() to proxy proxy.entp.attws.com port 8080
   *   Trying 135.214.40.30... * connected
   ...
   

Answer 6

As this was answered by many but This is just for Winodws USER who is behind proxy with auth.

Re-Installing(first failed, Don't remove).

Goto ->
**Windows**
1. msysgit\installer-tmp\etc\gitconfig
    Under [http]
        proxy = http://user:pass@url:port

**Linux**
1. msysgit\installer-tmp\setup-msysgit.sh
      export HTTP_PROXY="http://USER:[e-mail]:8080"

if you have any special char in user/pass use url_encode