# How to change Julia GIT settings?

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Does this help?

help?\> Pkg.setprotocol!  
Pkg.setprotocol!(proto::Union{Nothing, AbstractString}=nothing)

Set the protocol used to access GitHub-hosted packages when adding a url or developing a package. Defaults to delegating the choice to the package  
developer (proto == nothing). Other choices for proto are “https” or “git”.

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