Sometimes there is a need to work with sub-optimal technologies such as a windows operative system behind a ssh-blocking draconian firewall. How worse can it get?
I had this problem while working at a client office and fortunately there is a way to handle the situation as discussed in this thread at github.
In short the best way is to use git smart HTTP support. Starting with a working installation of cygwin with git, I first set the proxy
git config --global http.proxy "your.proxyserver.com"
This should be enough to pull read-only repository via http. However if you try to pull read/write repos via https git prompts for a password but doesn't accept the input for some bizarre reason.
To solve the problem clone the repo using the url:
https://username:password@github.com/user/repo.git
Then switch off SSL verification
git config --global http.sslverify false
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