I was wondering about that too.

If we change it we will probably break a few installs, but its best to
change it now.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:40 AM Miguel Negrão notifications@github.com
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Using the git protocol
http://git-scm.com/book/es/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protocols (git://)
will try to open port 9418.

tcp 0 1 143.117.230.148:52195 192.30.252.130:9418 SYN_ENVI 1000 44131 12311/git

On many netwoks, specially university networks in the uk, that port is
blocked. I for instance cannot use the quarks from the university wireless.
That causes the git process to just hang. Wouldn't it be better to use
https instead ? Htttps is almost never blocked (thank god for online
banking !).

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#1397.

I just learned that the workaround for this is to run:
git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://
...which redirects all git:// urls to https:// urls.
For 3.7, we should add this to the documentation and possibly to an error message if it appears our git connection is failing.

@crucialfelix why would using https:// instead of git:// break a few installs?

I don't think we break any installs at all if we just change it. but it might reinstall them because the url doesn't match. it would put them in the same location.

I'll just find and replace them all and change quarks docs.