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!
How to set git to use a local socks5 proxy (e.g. 127.0.0.1:9999) when it uses ssh connections?
After some visiting so many pages, I finally find the solution to my question:
# [step 1] create a ssh-proxy
ssh -D 9999 -qCN [email protected]
# [step 2] make git connect through the ssh-proxy
# [current script only]
export GIT_SSH_COMMAND='ssh -o ProxyCommand="connect -S 127.0.0.1:9999 %h %p"'
# OR [git global setting]
git config --global core.sshCommand 'ssh -o ProxyCommand="connect -S 127.0.0.1:9999 %h %p"'
# OR [one-time only use]
git clone -c=core.sshCommand 'ssh -o ProxyCommand="connect -S 127.0.0.1:9999 %h %p"' [email protected]:user/repo.git
# OR [current repository use only]
git config core.sshCommand 'ssh -o ProxyCommand="connect -S 127.0.0.1:9999 %h %p"'
To install connect on Ubuntu:
sudo apt install connect-proxy