Borrowing from answers in this Stack Overflow question, here's how you can get through a corporate (Microsoft) NTLM Proxy to clone git repositories from drupal.org:

cd into your drupal contrib directory (or wherever you want to put the repository).

$ export http_proxy="https://username:password@proxy:port/"

$ git clone https://git.drupal.org/project/[projectname]

Basically, you're first setting an environment variable to tell

This is half for my own reference, because I have a few other computers I still need to set up, and I don't want to keep referring back to drupal.org docs to get everything ready for Git.

In case you've been under a rock lately, drupal.org was down for a while yesterday, while a team of dedicated Drupal peeps spent a few hours migrating everything in drupal.org's version control system (which was running CVS) to Git. Git is an excellent

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