[tor-bugs] #21227 [Core Tor/Torsocks]: Ship a git-remote-tor helper

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#21227: Ship a git-remote-tor helper
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     Reporter:  nicoo              |      Owner:  dgoulet
         Type:  enhancement        |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium             |  Milestone:
    Component:  Core Tor/Torsocks  |    Version:
     Severity:  Minor              |   Keywords:
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 Interacting with git remotes over Tor is harder than it needs to be.

 The 2 current options I'm aware of are:
 - running `torsocks git` everytime, which is not great;
 - setting the `http.proxy` config option, but
   - this only works for HTTP remotes (not SSH ones, for instance)
   - this works on a per-repository basis
   - it's impossible to cone a repository (or add a remote, or...) and set
 this configuration item in one step

 Given that, I quickly whipped up a git-remote-tor helper (in POSIX SH),
 which simply runs another git-remote-* helper under torsocks.
 Using it, it is possible to do things such as `git clone
 tor:http://dccbbv6cooddgcrq.onion/torspec.git`.

 It currently lacks documentation and doesn't work (yet) with SSH remotes,
 though.

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