GitHub behind proxy servers among other questions

[monarch_dodra]

On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 16:49:05 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 16:24:53 UTC, JohnnyK wrote:
>> On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 03:35:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>> On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 02:42:50 UTC, JohnnyK wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I have searched everywhere over the Internet and I have yet 
>>>> to find a way to clone a project using git when my 
>>>> workstation is behind a company proxy.  Can you guys clone 
>>>> your projects to a single zip file that I can download?  
>>>> This would be easier instead of working with some strange 
>>>> command-line tool that does not recognize modern networks.  
>>>> Honestly I just need the DWT binary with the help files so I 
>>>> can use the api.  I have spent weeks searching for a way to 
>>>> download DWT to my windows workstation at work and have yet 
>>>> figured out how to make GIT work.
>>>
>>> Git provides a download by zip; Right side, bottom.
>>>
>>> This is what I found on getting Git to work with a proxy:
>>>
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128035/how-do-i-pull-from-a-git-repository-through-an-http-proxy
>>
>> I appreciate your response.  I have tried these.  I think the 
>> real issue is that I am not sure on the IP and port needed for 
>> the proxy here at work.  The company uses WPAD in the browser 
>> and I cannot figure out what the IP and port the browser is 
>> using to connect through the proxy.  If I knew that I probably 
>> could make it work.  It would be nice if GitHUB would change 
>> their Downlaod Zip button such that it does a recursive zip to 
>> include all the subfolders.
>
> I would just ssh to somewhere outside the firewall, git clone 
> there, tar the folder, then scp it back. Assuming that is 
> possible through your firewall.
>
> If you're on windows then there are the always useful putty and 
> winscp to do your ssh and scp work respectively.

Well, the thing to remember is that he did say "company", so such 
approaches to bypass a firewall could very well be a violation of 
his IT policies. I know doing this would be *major* violation of 
my companie's policies, and could be cause for termination.