dependabot / git-shim

git https shim

git https shim

This git shim replaces any URL or SCP-style URL as an argument to git with an HTTPS URL.

This is useful in a corporate environment where an HTTP Proxy is used. You could use the command git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git:// but that doesn't work for SCP-style style URLs: [e-mail]:org/repo.git due to the colon :.

How does it work? You place this git shim on your path before the actual git. When it runs, it finds arguments and replaces them, and then invokes the next git on the path with the scrubbed arguments.

Installation

Prebuilt

• Go to the latest Release
• Download the binary for your device
• Unarchive and place the binary somewhere accessable like ~/bin
• Edit your PATH environment variable to place ~/bin before where git is installed, like PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin.
• Restart your terminal

From Source

With Go installed, ensure Go's bin path is on the $PATH environment variable before git and run:

go install github.com/dependabot/git@latest

You may need to restart your terminal, or source on your .*rc/profile.