git is blocked, how to install npm modules

Question

We are connected through a proxy and here, git is blocked ( not the website but on git//: ) we tried with egit, \"git on windows\", with and without proxy but n

Answer 1

The git proxy setting worked for me for cloning repos from github. But, when installing/updating a npm module that uses a git url, I am still getting the timeout error. The workaround for me was to set the proxy manually in the .git/config file for the repo.

[http]
    proxy = http://proxy.company.com:8888   

But wait, there is more: this worked for some git url but not for other. The second and final workaround was to make sure the git proxy is set in both user config files, since my PC had a shared network user home on I drive:

I:\.gitconfig
C:\Users\\.gitconfig

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