Using Git with a corporate firewall that uses certificate interception

Like many open source tools (originally or completely) based on Linux, git has issues with self-signed certificates, especially if you work in a corporate environment where your company may have network message inspection hardware for security. To get git to work in such an environment, you'll need the public root Certificate Authority certificate for your company, exported to a base 64 .cer file. Once you have that, run the following command to install it into git's private certificate store:

git config --global http.sslCAInfo "<path/to/your/certfile.cer or .pem>"