How do I clone a gist using https:// instead of git://

Question

At my office we are not able to connect to github using git:// urls. For the regular repositories we just juse the https:// url and we're fine.

For gist there does not appear to be a way to access the gist via an https:// url.

BTW, I cannot seem to find any github documentation about gist ... I recall reading a page on github(?) about gist, but for the life of me I cannot find anything on the site itself that documents gist ... of course google is useless as gist show up everywhere ... but no documentation links:(

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can configure git to use https:// globally by running running git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git:// or by adding the following to ~/.gitconfig:

[url "https://"]
  insteadOf = git://