Windows 10 -> Pkg.add -> ERROR: failed to clone from https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git

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Hi,
Julia is awesume, but I have trouble to add packages at my corporate computer. The fixes in the topic below seems to only work at windows 7 machines and I am using windows 10.

Is there someone with the same problem who has already solved it? At home it works (also Windows 10).

julia> Pkg.add(“IJulia”)
Cloning default registries into C:\Users\gerischerp\.julia
Cloning registry from “GitHub - JuliaRegistries/General: The official registry of general Julia packages”
ERROR: failed to clone from GitHub - JuliaRegistries/General: The official registry of general Julia packages, error: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:OS, failed to send request: Das Zeitlimit für den Vorgang wurde erreicht.
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Stacktrace:
[1] pkgerror(::String) at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\Types.jl:120
[2] #clone#3(::String, ::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Symbol,LibGit2.CachedCredentials,Tuple{Symbol},NamedTuple{(:credentials,),Tuple{LibGit2.CachedCredentials}}}, ::Function, ::String, ::String) at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\GitTools.jl:111
[3] (::getfield(Pkg.GitTools, Symbol(“#kw##clone”)))(::NamedTuple{(:header, :credentials),Tuple{String,LibGit2.CachedCredentials}}, ::typeof(Pkg.GitTools.clone), ::String, ::String) at .\none:0
[4] (::getfield(Pkg.Types, Symbol(“##87#89”)))(::LibGit2.CachedCredentials) at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\Types.jl:1103
[5] shred!(::getfield(Pkg.Types, Symbol(“##87#89”)), ::LibGit2.CachedCredentials) at .\secretbuffer.jl:184
[6] clone_or_cp_registries(::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.RegistrySpec,1}, ::String) at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\Types.jl:1102
[7] clone_or_cp_registries at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\Types.jl:1087 [inlined]
[8] clone_default_registries() at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\Types.jl:1037
[9] find_registered!(::Pkg.Types.EnvCache, ::Array{String,1}, ::Array{Base.UUID,1}) at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\Types.jl:1312
[10] registry_resolve!(::Pkg.Types.EnvCache, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\Types.jl:949
[11] #add_or_develop#17(::Symbol, ::Bool, ::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}, ::Function, ::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\API.jl:52
[12] #add_or_develop at .\none:0 [inlined]
[13] #add_or_develop#16 at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\API.jl:36 [inlined]
[14] #add_or_develop at .\none:0 [inlined]
[15] #add_or_develop#13 at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\API.jl:34 [inlined]
[16] #add_or_develop at .\none:0 [inlined]
[17] #add_or_develop#12(::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Symbol,Symbol,Tuple{Symbol},NamedTuple{(:mode,),Tuple{Symbol}}}, ::Function, ::String) at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\API.jl:33
[18] #add_or_develop at .\none:0 [inlined]
[19] #add#22 at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\API.jl:64 [inlined]
[20] add(::String) at C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.1\Pkg\src\API.jl:64
[21] top-level scope at none:0

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Maybe you are behind a proxy. You can search for git and proxy and you will find some solution.
It looks like:

run(`git config --global http.proxy proxyHost:proxyPort`)

But there is probably more to alter which you have to try and error.

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Thants, that was the solution!

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Similar problem with Windows 10 and Julia 0.4.1, it was solved by doing: git config --global --unset http.proxy

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I’m using windows 10 with the same error. All i did was turn on my PC’s VPN software. Then it worked straight away. Took a few minutes and i thought it had hung a few times, but it worked!
With much hair pulling beforehand.