Git clone over ssh socks proxy

This is useful for a machine that needs to clone some repository from github, but does not having internet connection.

First, we must identify another machine that can access github.com, we can call this server proxy-server.

Then, establish a socks proxy from our no-internet-server

$ ssh -qN -D 1234 proxy-server

The above command will create a socks proxy at localhost port 1234

Use the git command with socks proxy. Let's say we want to clone the 30-seconds-of-code repository, run below command in a new shell

$ git -c http-proxy=socks5h://localhost:1234 clone https://github.com/30-seconds/30-seconds-of-code

Once done, press ctrl-c in the first shell, to terminate the socks proxy