Using Fontist with a proxy

Fontist uses Git internally for fetching formulas and fonts.

In order to use Git functionality behind a proxy, you need to update your own Git config via the git config command or the ~/.gitconfig preference file.

There are many ways to configure your local Git install to use proxies.

The simplest, global way of setting a proxy for Git is the following.

For HTTP

git config --global http.proxy http://{user}:{pass}@{proxyhost}:{port}

For HTTPS, you may need to handle SSL/TLS verification errors after setting the proxy since the encryption end is located at your HTTPS proxy endpoint:

git config --global http.proxy https://{user}:{pass}@{proxyhost}:{port}
git config --global https.proxy https://{user}:{pass}@{proxyhost}:{port}

For SOCKS, you will need to decide on the SOCKS protocol:

git config --global http.proxy '{protocol}://{user}:{pass}@{proxyhost}:{port}'
git config --global https.proxy '{protocol}://{user}:{pass}@{proxyhost}:{port}'

For example,

git config --global http.proxy 'socks5h://user:pass@socks-proxy.example.org'
git config --global https.proxy 'socks5h://user:pass@socks-proxy.example.org'

The list of supported SOCKS protocols for the {protocol} field:

• socks://: for SOCKS below v5
• socks5://: for SOCKS v5
• socks5h://: for SOCKS below v5 + host resolution via SOCKS

You could actually set different proxy behavior for individual Git repositories — please see this great guide on how to use Git proxies (thanks to the GitHub user evantoli).