How to make git work to push commits to GitHub via tor?

git, github, tor

Solution

Setting an HTTP or HTTPS proxy will not work, because Tor acts on port 9050 as a SOCKS proxy. What will work instead is the software `socat` with some settings inside your SSH `config`:

Host github
  HostName github.com
  IdentityFile /path/to/your/file
  User git
  ProxyCommand socat STDIO SOCKS4A:127.0.0.1:%h:%p,socksport=9050

Your SSH settings usually live in `~/.ssh/config`. The configurations above tell SSH settings for the host `github`. It takes your input and directs it via `socat` through Tor.

Now you can do a `git COMMAND ssh://github/USER/REPO` and git will do your `COMMAND` via Tor.

Problem

So, GitHub is now officially banned by Russian Government and Rospotrebnadzor. I used GitHub to create free software and share it, and it's important part of my life. Today I've installed Tor on Arch Linux and now I'm able to browse GitHub and other banned sites. I tried to make `git` work via Tor but without success. Here is what I did: ``` git config --global http.proxy localhost:9050 git config --global https.proxy localhost:9050 ``` But when I try to push, I get error `501`: fatal: unable to access 'https://X@github.com/X/X.git/': Received HTTP code 501 from proxy after CONNECT So, `501` means 'not implemented'. I have little experience with Tor (but from now on I'm starting to appreciate it), so don't know if it's really impossible to use Tor this way or I'm doing something wrong. Q: how to configure `git` to use it via Tor?

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