Russia has just gone a step closer to being like North Korea….

Source: Russian censorship law bans proxies and VPNs

I do a fair amount of work using git as version control, with SVN and CVS close behind, but I haven’t used any of them so much as a distributed version control.  However, since I’ve started using Bitbucket and GitHub, I have encountered many issues to do with DVC. One of the main ones is communication via proxy.

My workplace doesn’t allow communication through the net without it going through a proxy server and it is an major pain in the arse to get through. Fortunately, git allows you to configure git to use a proxy server:

To use a proxy server for HTTP communication:

git config --global http.proxy [proxyserver](http://user:password@proxyserver:9999)

To use a proxy server for HTTPS communication:

git config --global https.proxy [proxyserver](http://user:password@proxyserver:9999)

My company firewall also injects its own SSL certificate, which breaks SSL verification, so to get around that:

git config --global http.sslVerify false