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

Do you have SOCKS proxy? If you have, you caould try FreeCap to socksify your git connection. I've been using git this way for a while.

If not, still try FreeCap. IIRC it might be able to use http proxies, but I haven't tried that.

EDIT: I usualy socksify cmd.exe using FreeCap, and from then on (almost) all cmdline programs that I start from that session are socksified too. That's why I recommended Free Cap, since SocksCap (another alternative) doesn't work that way.

As for using http.proxy, it for some reason never worked for me with mingw version and my company http proxies.