Using a socks proxy with git for the http transport

Question

How to make git use a socks proxy for HTTP transport?

I succeed in configuring git with GIT_PROXY_COMMAND to use a socks proxy for GIT transport.

Also, I hav

Answer 1

(Just a little reminder) If you want the hostname also be resolved by the proxy (that means passing everything through the proxy), especially when you are cloning a gist, you can use the following setting (the key is that it uses socks5h instead of socks5):

git config --global http.proxy socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080