Using clone_repository() with a proxy

[Tom-Shaw]

Is it possible to use pygit2.clone_repository() with an HTTPS proxy?

I thought maybe I could use the remote argument to inject a Remote object where the relevant methods were wrapped to have a proxy argument but I didn't have any success.

I've been able to use init_repository(), create and monkey patch an origin Remote to wrap its methods as above, then do a fetch and checkout, but I'm not sure if this is equivalent to clone_repository() and it doesn't feel natural.

Just want to check if I'm making this way too hard!