davisford

Let's say you start a project locally, and do some editing.

$ mkdir -p ~/git/foo && cd ~/git/foo
$ touch NEWFILE

Now you decide you want to create a new github repo and track it, but the directory is non-empty so git won't let you clone into it. You can fix this, thusly:

sn0wcat

Using git / ssh through http proxy on windows

If you are moving your development machine from an unrestricted to a restricted network and back, the chances are high that you will have problems using ssh or git dependent on the network where your computer is currently set up.

A good way to circumvent this is to use a local development proxy (like fiddler) on your computer and to tunnel all connections through it.

For example I am running fiddler on my machine on port 8888 (accepting external connections) and I am using the following setup: