Dave Raphael's Blog

This is a sweet way of getting current git info in your prompt in OS X…this saves me from those “damn, I’m on the wrong branch…” moments - http://www.codethatmatters.com/2010/01/git-autocomplete-in-mac-os-x/

Some of us are stuck behind a corporate firewall, but need to access all the great little github plugins through git!  So what do you do?

Create the following wrapper:

#!/bin/sh
# Put your own values 
PROXY_IP=127.0.0.1 
PROXY_PORT=1090  
nc -x${PROXY_IP}:${PROXY_PORT} -X5 $* 

and add this to your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_rc etc…

export GITPROXYCOMMAND=~/bin/proxy-wrapper 

I stole this solution from http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/2009/07/17/git_behind_proxy/ Cheers, Dave