To IT: I can no longer clone GitHub repos from the command line.

From IT… Hello DevOps engineer…. You’re no longer allowed to use port 22. It’s not safe. All traffic must be port 443.

Really!?

Morons

Well. You *can* use git over https.
But srsly now. Polish your cv right now, and send it out.
Make sure your TL and all the chain above know about that email when you leave. Something like:
Following the email from IT on the .... that caused you severe mental distress, etc...

At one point our over-zealous networking dept. blocked the SMTP port+protocol on our external *e-mail* server and told us the port wasn't secure and to use another port, didn't care what port, just not the smtp port for sending emails.

The floods of failed emails from various systems starting flowing in, end-users upset, etc etc. which we pointed them to visit the network admin. Not long we get a visit:

A: "What the hell guys, VP-Bill is busting my balls over emails not going out. We told you 2 weeks ago this was happening, why didn't you change the port?!"

Us: "Change the port to what? We don't control Exchange infrastructure, you do. You need to tell us what to use"

A: "That's dumb, it's your code. Just use something more secure."

Us: "Go back to your office and tell yourself that out loud 3 times. If it still makes sense, come back and we'll change code."

<couple of seconds, he shouts down the hallway>

A: "Oh shit....TOM! ROLLBACK! ROLLBACK!"

GIT over https....

Dave, stop snorting coke on the toilet.... And stop fucking dat damn car battery - even if it makes you sparkle.

I don't know why these sentences came to my mind... Maybe because it just makes no sense? The beauty of GIT is SSH. For a magnitude of reasons, be it security, authentication, administration, ...

Yeah. I COULD use https with git…. , but honestly, I just downloaded the .zip file of the git repo via the web UI and am working offline for now. I seriously don’t feel like setting up access token auth this week.

I would just stop working all together. If stuff gets late it's sorry I'm blocked from working.

"Hello sysops? Could you please change all your SSH servers to use a custom port instead?"

Yeah, they would be so happy to do so.

I got around this by buying a cheap cloud server and listening for ssh connections on 443, and then tunneling everything