Configure git to use IPv4 instead of IPv6 by default

Question

Checking the environment variables and also HTTP configuration options does not reveal something. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

For those that are using Ubuntu/Debian, the best way to have the latest git version is following the steps below, taken from here.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa  
sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install git  

Updating for a version 2.19+ plus the solution above, proposed by Anthony C Howe has solved my problem.