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

For us, the solution involved two different things. First, as described in Sogger's answer, you need to add the entries to your .gitconfig file, located in %USERPROFILE%.

[http]
    proxy = http://:

[https]
    proxy = https://:

Second, (and this was the missing piece for us,) you need to configure an exception on the proxy server to allow non-authenticated proxy traffic to *.github.com

In iPrism, it looks like this:

The problem is not so much the proxy, but the authentication. Bypassing the authentication requirement allows the needed communication to clone and work with projects using the GitHub desktop client.

Also note that this approach did not require storing proxy credentials in the .gitconfig file.