Cannot connect to github

Question

I'm in China and cannot pull, clone or push to github. I'm using a vpn but it still doesn't work. I'm working home from my computer, so it can't be my firewall. I also tried to turn it of briefly, but it didn't change anything.

fatal: unable to access '': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Timed out.

I've tried setting and unsetting proxies, without success. I've googled for at least a couple of hours, but without prevail.

Any help would be very appreciated and valuable to me.

Answer 1

If your git was already set to something and you only copied that folder to some other location, simply run:

git config --global http.proxy ""

And you can pull again :)