Proxies are the devil. If you pick a random software application and try to do anything network related behind a proxy, it’s a coin toss as to whether the developer gave proxy support a second thought. In the case of git, it didn’t work right out of the box for me. But it didn’t take more than a minute to figure out a working solution either.

If you’re behind a proxy and you run that, you’ll get something like “the other end hung up” or “Cannot get remote repository information” because git is trying to connect using port 9418 by default. I found a few sites saying all you need to do is change git to http in the url and it will work, but that did not work for me. But it’s an easy fix. Change git’s http.proxy and you’re done. Here’s how: (replace my proxy host and port 8002 with your own)

There’s so many version control projects out there for software development, but which one is the best? In the last week or so i’ve run into 3 or 4 sites/blogs for software apps that either mentioned that they’ve changed over to a new DVCS or they …