How to configure a HTTP proxy for svn

There are two common approaches for this:

• Specify http-proxy- options in your /etc/.subversion/servers or %APPDATA%\Subversion\servers file,

• Use --config-option command-line option to specify the same http-proxy- options in single command-line you run. For example,

  svn checkout ^
  --config-option servers:global:http-proxy-host=<PROXY-HOST> ^
  --config-option servers:global:http-proxy-port=<PORT> <REPO-URL> <LWC-DIR> 
  

If you are on Windows, you can also write http-proxy- options to Windows Registry. It's pretty handy if you need to apply proxy settings in Active Directory environment via Group Policy Objects.

In windows 7, you may have to edit this file

C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Subversion\servers

[global]
http-proxy-host = ip.add.re.ss
http-proxy-port = 3128

Have you seen the FAQ entry What if I'm behind a proxy??

... edit your "servers" configuration file to indicate which proxy to use. The files location depends on your operating system. On Linux or Unix it is located in the directory "~/.subversion". On Windows it is in "%APPDATA%\Subversion". (Try "echo %APPDATA%", note this is a hidden directory.)

For me this involved uncommenting and setting the following lines:

#http-proxy-host=my.proxy
#http-proxy-port=80
#http-proxy-username=[username]
#http-proxy-password=[password]

On command line : nano ~/.subversion/servers

You can find the instructions here. Basically you just add

[global]
http-proxy-host = ip.add.re.ss
http-proxy-port = 3128
http-proxy-compression = no

to your ~/.subversion/servers file.