How to force Git to use socks proxy over its ssh connection?

Question

There are tons of identical solutions over the internet for defining proxy tunnel for git's downloads like this one, which all is by setting git's https.proxy & http.proxy config. but those answers are not working when you try to clone/push/pull etc. over the ssh protocol!

For example, by setting git config --global https.proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:9999 when you try to clone git clone [email protected]:user/repo.git it does not go through the defined sock5 tunnel!

I've tried various thing but none was working!

Question:

How to set git to use a local socks5 proxy (e.g. 127.0.0.1:9999) when it uses ssh connections?

Answer 1

There are 2 types to clone git: HTTP, and ssh. There are 2 common types of proxy: HTTP, and socks.

Here's the method dealing with 2 * 2 conditions:

# Method 1. git http + proxy http
git config --global http.proxy "http://127.0.0.1:1080"
git config --global https.proxy "http://127.0.0.1:1080"

# Method 2. git http + proxy shocks
git config --global http.proxy "socks5://127.0.0.1:1080"
git config --global https.proxy "socks5://127.0.0.1:1080"

# to unset
git config --global --unset http.proxy
git config --global --unset https.proxy

# Method 3. git ssh + proxy http
vim ~/.ssh/config
Host github.com
HostName github.com
User git
ProxyCommand socat - PROXY:127.0.0.1:%h:%p,proxyport=1087

# Method 4. git ssh + proxy socks
vim ~/.ssh/config
Host github.com
HostName github.com
User git
ProxyCommand nc -v -x 127.0.0.1:1080 %h %p