Git url vs http url

Question

When you want to Clone a Git Repo, you have the option of the git:// url or the https:// url, my question is which is faster, or does it even make a difference

Answer 1

In early versions of git there was a huge difference, with git:// being much faster. Since the introduction of smarthttp the difference has become so small that both are perfectly usable.

HTTPS is usually easier to get through a proxy.