Cloning a remote Subversion repository using Git through a proxy server

To clone a remote Subversion repository using Git through a proxy server, edit the ~/.subversion/servers file appropriately:

`[global]
# http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org
# http-proxy-host = defaultproxy.whatever.com
# http-proxy-port = 7000
# http-proxy-username = defaultusername
# http-proxy-password = defaultpassword
`

Note that even in Windows, the correct path is actually ~/.subversion/servers when using git-svn, even though this is NOT the normal configuration directory for the native svn.exe. For example in Windows 7 svn.exe typically uses the path C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\Subversion.

This was quite confusing to me at first, because after I got svn checkout working well by editing C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\Subversion\servers I was surprised to find that git clone svn still had the proxy issue.

In case you were wondering, the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables are ignored by both Git and Subversion.

Cloning a remote Subversion repository using Git through a proxy server —16 March 2013