git:// protocol blocked by company, how can I get around that?

Question

Attempting something like git clone git://github.com/ry/node.git will not work, it results in:

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/robert/         


        

Answer 1

Another option which not involving touching git config is to change the ssh settings to use port 443 instead of the regular 22 port.

Reference: Using SSH over the HTTPS port

From that article:

edit the file at ~/.ssh/config, and add this section:

Host github.com
   Hostname ssh.github.com   
   Port 443

Afterward, I was able to successfully git push to Github. At home you can change back ssh config to the way it was if you want.