Git error: fatal: unable to connect a socket (Invalid argument)

Question

I\'ve got msysGit (Git on Windows) working just fine on my home machine, but at work, where we are behind a Microsoft ISA proxy, I get the following error when I do a git cl

Answer 1

Even after configuring the proxy, you might be unable to connect, since the proxy is disallowing git protocol traffic. In this case, you might want to try using "http" instead of "git"

H:>git clone http://github.com/akitaonrails/vimfiles.git

Also, if you are using an automated proxy config file (.pac), just open it in a text editor. It is quite a easy to following scripting language, with a bunch of conditions to re-direct to the most efficient proxy. Find the one that allows general purpose traffic (typically, the last configured proxy), and configure it as mentioned in the comment above.