Re: Using socks proxy with git for http(s) transport

2013/3/6 Jeff King [off-list ref]:

Try:

  git config --global http.proxy 'socks://yourhost:port'

That will enable it for all git repositories on your machine. Git should
also respect any environment variables that curl handles (because we use
libcurl under the hood), if you prefer to set it up that way. See "man
curl" for details.

-Peff

Also try setting ALL_PROXY environment variable that curl handle:
export ALL_PROXY='socks5://127.0.0.1:1080'

Work with curl:
curl -v http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack

* About to connect() to proxy 127.0.0.1 port 1080 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
--:--:--     0* 198
* 145
* 20
* 140
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 1080 (#0)

GET /pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.29.1-DEV
Host: git.kernel.org
Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: nginx
< Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:33:05 GMT
< Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-advertisement
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT
< Pragma: no-cache
< Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate
<
{ [data not shown]


But with git (without the http.proxy configuration in .gitconfig):

GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
trace: built-in: git 'clone' 'http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git'
Cloning into 'git'...
trace: run_command: 'git-remote-http' 'origin'
'http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git'
* Couldn't find host git.kernel.org in the .netrc file, using defaults
* About to connect() to proxy 127.0.0.1 port 1080
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... * connected
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 1080

GET http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: git/1.8.1.5
Host: git.kernel.org
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache

* Empty reply from server
* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
error: Empty reply from server while accessing
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
fatal: HTTP request failed

Regards,
Yves