Proxy through Cntlm: why git clone hangs?

Question

I was able to set cntlm (see its sourceforge project) to our corporate proxy and browser works through it. Both on http and https.
But when I try to run git clone -v https://github.com/spraints/git-tfs.git, it sends several initial packages and hangs. Resulting .git directory is about 14kb.

On the contrary when I set it directly in git via:

git config --global http.proxy http://domain\\\login:password@our-proxy-server:8088

everything works well.

Do you have any suggestions?
Or probably some proposal how to connect git to repositories without putting password in plaintext configs?

Answer 1

It seems it is a bug in Cntlm: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3106663&group_id=197861&atid=963162

Pity.

UPD: just released 0.92 version handles this situation correctly. At least author claims so :)

UPD2: 0.92.3 works, I checked.

Answer 2

Git usually hangs when there is some I/O expected during this proces. In your case, the username and password.
Once you set http.proxy (or %http_proxy% like in this question), git should try to get those login information in $HOME/.netrc (or %HOME%/_netrc on Windows)

The login information will still be in plain text, but in a file only readable by you. If the https protocol works, that information won't be in plain text over the network.