git:// through proxy

Question

I\'m behind a firewall that is blocking port 9418 (git) and am trying to install some tools that are explicitly doing a checkout of git://github.com/..., so I c

Answer 1

If you are talking about git submodules, try this:

git config --global url.https://github.com/.insteadOf git://github.com/

...taken from here.

This way, you don't need to set any proxy, nor run any script.