I have to use a git server without proper certificates, but I don't want to have to do

env GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true git command

every single time I do a git operation. But I would also like to leave SSL enabled for other git repositories. Is there a way to make this local to a single repo?

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12 Answers

You can do

git config http.sslVerify "false"

in your specific repo to disable SSL certificate checking for that repo only.

This won't work with git clone, since you don't yet have the local git repo to be able to set the flag in yet. Therefore in that case:

git -c http.sslVerify=false clone <path> cd <directory> git config http.sslVerify "false"
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You can do as follows

For a single repo

git config http.sslVerify false

For all repo

git config --global http.sslVerify false
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Like what Thirumalai said, but inside of the cloned repository and without --global. I.e.,

  1. GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true git clone
  2. cd <directory-of-the-clone>
  3. git config http.sslVerify false
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In particular if you need recursive clone

GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true git clone --recursive

If you have to disable SSL checks for one git server hosting several repositories, you can run :

git config --bool --add http. false

This will add it to your user's configuration.

Command to check:

git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify

(If you still use git < v1.8.5, run git config --global http. false)

Explanation from the documentation where the command is at the end, show the .gitconfig content looking like:

[http ""] sslVerify = false

It will ignore any certificate checks for this server, whatever the repository.

You also have some explanation in the code

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If you are on a Windows machine and have the Git installed, you can try the below steps:

  1. Go to the folder of Git installation, ex: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc
  2. Edit the file: gitconfig

  3. Under the [http] section, add the line: sslVerify = false

    [http] sslVerify = false
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There is an easy way of configuring GIT to handle your server the right way. Just add an specific http section for your git server and specify which certificate (Base64 encoded) to trust:

~/.gitconfig

[http ""] # windows path use double back slashes # sslCaInfo = C:\\Users\\<user>\\repo.your-server.com.cer # unix path to certificate (Base64 encoded) sslCaInfo = /home/<user>/repo.your-server.com.cer

This way you will have no more SSL errors and validate the (usually) self-signed certificate. This is the best way to go, as it protects you from man-in-the-middle attacks. When you just disable ssl verification you are vulnerable to these kind of attacks.

This question keeps coming up and I did not find a satisfying result yet, so here is what worked for me (based on a previous answer , which is not working):

My server is with a self-signed certificate.

First run git config --system --edit (from an elevated command prompt, change --system to --global if you want to do it for just your user), then insert the following snippet after any previous [http] sections:

[http ""] sslVerify = false

Then check if you did everything correctly:

> git config --type=bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify false

This works for me:

git init git config --global http.sslVerify false git clone

On Linux, if you call this inside the git repository folder:

git config http.sslVerify false

this will add sslVerify = false in the [http] section of the config file in the .git folder, which can also be the solution, if you want to add this manually with nano .git/config:

... [http] sslVerify = false

One more point ,apart from

git config --global http.sslVerify false

just setting the SSL verification to false ,you also have to have the key to clone the repository. something like this

git clone "

5edwerwe32434lcvghjjextracgecj is the token generated from github under settings/ Developer settings/

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for windows, if you want global config, then run

git config --global http.sslVerify false
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