How to capture a Fiddler trace for Git for Windows

Prerequisites to download/install:

• Git for Windows (https://git-scm.com/)
• Fiddler (https://www.telerik.com/fiddler)
• gitfiddler.cmd (attached at bottom)

Steps:

1. Run gitfiddler.cmd in a new command prompt.  This script configures git.exe to use Fiddler as a proxy, and then waits for a key press.  Once a key is pressed, the script clears the settings that it sets, and then exists.
   • Leave the script running for now.
   • READ the script before running it!
2. Start Fiddler
   • If you are using HTTPS, enable HTTPS decryption (https://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/Configure-Fiddler/Tasks/DecryptHTTPS)
3. Run your git commands
4. Select the captured requests in Fiddler and save them in a ArchiveZip (*.saz) file.

gitfiddler.cmd

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 15, 2015
  Using this script just causes git authentication errors, no more git operations possible..