While cloning is supported in the terminal and can be successfully configured in the macro panel, it is completely impossible to configure the plugin management panel, and I cannot even test it.
According to Alternate plugin repositories broken? - #7 by FlorianPircher ,
Glyphs is using libgit2 for its Git-handling, including cloning.
macOS doesn’t allow any connections over http (no s) any more.
Solutions I thought of:
Make user able to manually switch the Git (to system Git) used by the plugin management panel,
or able to configure libgit2 thus to use a proxy;
or at least allow the plugin management panel to recognize plugins that user manually clone and install to ‘~/Library/Application Support/Glyphs 3/Repositories/PluginName’, I can even accept displaying “This was manually installed by the user” to differentiate them;
or provide a manual installation script which uses the system Git to ensure that the cloned data has not been tampered with, but the script might be incompatible with local plugins.plist.
I don’t suggest using git in macro panel.
What I tried:
Needless to say attempts in the terminal, I later learned that the Git configurations for the three environments are not shared. Just skip to the configuration process in the macro panel: all commands were generated by deepseek:
Incidentally, Python also failed to install in the plugin management panel, so I manually downloaded and installed it later(I might provide a script to automate this later; I saw others on the forum have encountered this problem).
The working directory in the macro panel is /, and this script will show the files contained within it: home usr bin sbin etc var：
import os
print("CurrentWorkingDirectory:", os.getcwd())
print("\nContentList:")
for item in os.listdir('.'):
print(item)
I won’t go into the details, the result is simple:
Add proxy settings to the global Git configuration; the command in the macro panel is:
import subprocess
subprocess.run(['git', 'config', '--global', 'http.proxy', 'http://127.0.0.1:7890'])
subprocess.run(['git', 'config', '--global', 'https.proxy', 'http://127.0.0.1:7890'])
Then the clone test will succeed:
import subprocess
import tempfile
# Use a temporary directory (which is usually writable).
temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
result = subprocess.run(
['git', 'clone', '--depth', '1', 'https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git', f'{temp_dir}/test_repo'],
capture_output=True,
text=True
)
if result.returncode != 0:
print("Cloning failed:", result.stderr)
else:
print("Cloning successful! Path:", temp_dir)
It succeeded in the macro panel, but it still failed in the plugin management panel, still showing the error: Failed to clone repository from [repo URL] to [local path].
No one else needs to repeat these tests:
Try1
Set proxy environment variables:
import os
# 设置代理环境变量Set proxy environment variables
os.environ['HTTP_PROXY'] = 'http://127.0.0.1:7890'
os.environ['HTTPS_PROXY'] = 'http://127.0.0.1:7890'
os.environ['GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY'] = '1'
# Verify
print(os.environ.get('HTTP_PROXY'))
outputs:http://127.0.0.1:7890
Reboot Glyphs.app, do verification only:
import os
# Verify
print(os.environ.get('HTTP_PROXY'))
outputs:none. Try1 failed.
Try2
Modify the launchd environment variable (Mac system level)
(Mac system level)
bash
#为 GUI 应用设置代理Set up a proxy for a GUI application
sudo launchctl setenv HTTP_PROXY http://127.0.0.1:7890
sudo launchctl setenv HTTPS_PROXY http://127.0.0.1:7890
Reboot Glyphs.app, do verification only, outputs:none.Try2 failed.
Try3
创建 Git 别名脚本Create a Git alias script：
import subprocess
import os
# 创建代理包装脚本Create proxy wrapper script
wrapper_script = '''#!/bin/bash
export HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:7890
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:7890
export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1
/usr/bin/git "$@"
'''
script_path = os.path.expanduser('~/git-proxy-wrapper.sh')
with open(script_path, 'w') as f:
f.write(wrapper_script)
# 添加执行权限Add execute permission
os.chmod(script_path, 0o755)
# 让 Glyphs 使用这个包装脚本Let Glyphs use this wrapper script
subprocess.run(['git', 'config', '--global', 'core.gitProxy', script_path])
print(f"✅ 代理包装脚本已创建Proxy packaging script has been created: {script_path}")
The plugin management panel and plugin list are no longer accessible.After restoring the configuration(see script below), the plugin list was retrieved normally.
import subprocess
# 1. 移除刚才设置的包装脚本Remove the wrapper script just set
subprocess.run(['git', 'config', '--global', '--unset', 'core.gitProxy'])
# 2. 恢复正常 Git 配置Restore normal Git configuration
subprocess.run(['git', 'config', '--global', 'http.proxy', 'http://127.0.0.1:7890'])
subprocess.run(['git', 'config', '--global', 'https.proxy', 'http://127.0.0.1:7890'])
subprocess.run(['git', 'config', '--global', 'http.sslVerify', 'false'])
# 3. 删除包装脚本Delete the wrapper script
import os
script_path = os.path.expanduser('~/git-proxy-wrapper.sh')
if os.path.exists(script_path):
os.remove(script_path)
print("✅ 已恢复配置Configuration restored")
Try4
Setting clash to global mode (instead of the previous rule mode) still results in “Failed to clone repository from [repo URL] to [local path]”.