Git is an excellent and popular tool, but it is too old that many new challenges must be addressed accordingly. This post records the problems and the solutions.

Proxy

In China, the most significant obstacle on the internet is the censorship. Occasionally even GitHub is blocked from access. In such case, a proxy that can bypass the firewall is necessary. According to this gist, git can be set to use proxy for certain domains by:

git config --global http.https://<domain.com>.proxy http://<proxyUsername:[email protected]:port>