Question

I was trying to figure this git thing out and at one moment I messed with the http.proxy variable. Right now it’s just nonsense, ‘asdf’ so pushing doesn’t work. I don’t know what the proxy setting was before (I don’t even know what proxy server is). Any way to set http.proxy to the correct value?

Right now the error is: “Couldn’t resolve proxy ‘asdf’ while accessing … fatal: HTTP request failed.

Answer 1

You added an entry to your git config file by mistake. You can manipulate the both the global and per-repository config files using git config.

To find out if you added the proxy entry to the global or local config files run this from the console:

git config -l --global | grep http  # this will print the line if it is in the global file
git config -l | grep http # this will print the line if it is in the repo config file

Then to remove all the http.proxy entries from either the global or the local file run this:

git config --global --unset-all http.proxy # to remove it from the global config
git config --unset-all http.proxy  # to remove it from the local repo config file

I hope this helps.