git cloning behind proxy — different behavior, same command

Question

I researched for this problem but didn't find anything helpful. What I don't understand is that the error keeps changing. I am trying to clone a repository using

git clone http://git.osmocom.org/gr-osmosdr gr-osmosdr

and I get two different errors at different times:

1. Complains too many open files. (error: unable to ope object pack directory. fatal: failed to read object XXXXXXX: too many open files)
2. couldn't connect to proxy (couldn't connect proxy at mycompanyproxy (curl_result=7, http_code=0, sha1 = YYYYYYYY)

I did set the environment variable

http_proxy="mycompanyproxy:1080"

and

git config --global http.proxy mycompanyproxy:1080

I did verify values of the variables too.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Try setting only environment variable or git config settings.

you can see both approaches set in "Only use a proxy for certain git urls/domains?"

set http_proxy=http://username:password@proxydomain:port
set https_proxy=http://username:password@proxydomain:port

Make sure to not use quotes, and don't forget the no_proxy one:

set no_proxy=localhost,.my.company