GitHub Windows client behind proxy

Question

I'm trying to get the GitHub client for Windows working. I am on a corporate Win 7 x64 computer behind a corporate proxy and firewall. Following various other posts and experimenting with multiple combinations of environment variables and config variables I have found the only way to get cloning and push updates to work is by using the HTTPS_PROXY environment variable, including my full corporate domain user ID and password.

This is unacceptable from a security standpoint. Is there any other way to get this to work?

Additional notes:

The following worked:

• Add an environment variable called HTTPS_PROXY with the value http://[domain][userid]:[password]@someproxy.mycorp.com:8080

The following did not work:

• Omitting user id and password from HTTPS_PROXY variable
• Using an environment variable called HTTP_PROXY (no S)
• Adding the http.proxy variable to the global config file (.gitconfig)
• Adding the https.proxy variable to the global config file

In all cases, the GitHub client still does not recognize the proxy: The content of the file TheLog.txt always shows the following on startup:

[time]|INFO|thread:4|GitHub.Helpers.StartupLogger|Proxy information: (None)
[time]|INFO|thread:4|GitHub.Helpers.StartupLogger|Couldn't fetch creds for proxy

And is followed by the output of several failed proxy authentication attempts, all of which indicate "Credentials are missing."

Answer 1

Add these entries to your '.gitconfig' file in your user directory (go to %USERPROFILE%):

[http]
    proxy = http://<proxy address>:<proxy port>

[https]
    proxy = https://<proxy address>:<proxy port>

And if you don't want to store your password in plaintext, I would use a local proxy forwarder like CNTLM which allows you to direct all traffic through it and can store the passwords hashed.

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Unlike the original question, if you don't care if your password is in plain text add these:

[http]
    proxy = http://<username>:<password>@<proxy address>:<proxy port>

[https]
    proxy = https://<username>:<password>@<proxy address>:<proxy port>