# Pkg.add() through proxy fails on Julia 0.5, Windows

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-through-proxy-fails-on-julia-0-5-windows/687>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [December 2, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-through-proxy-fails-on-julia-0-5-windows/687 "2016-12-02T04:11:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ihnorton/32/26_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ihnorton)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-add-through-proxy-fails-on-julia-0-5-windows/687/16 "2017-01-19T02:25:59Z")

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I think the libgit2 version included in 0.5 just missed the [libgit2 commit](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/3110) adding support for parsing credentials from `.gitconfig`. So there’s a fairly good chance this will work on master/0.6.

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