GitHub Windows client behind proxy

Question

I\'m trying to get the GitHub client for Windows working. I am on a corporate Win 7 x64 computer behind a corporate proxy and firewall. Following various other posts and exp

Answer 1

Here is the way to set proxy in github

git config --global http.proxy http://:@:
git config --global https.proxy http://:@:

Here in my college we don't have username and password, so if our college ip is 172.16.10.10 and port is 8080

git config --global http.proxy http://172.16.10.10:8080
git config --global https.proxy http://172.16.10.10:8080

P.S -> I would recommend using this method to set proxy as things will fall into place as you will learn further
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