Git: Received HTTP code 407 from proxy

I was cloning a git project:

git clone https://github.com/jiaqi/jmxterm

and I got

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/jiaqi/jmxterm/': Received HTTP code 407 from proxy after
 CONNECT

just do

git config --global http.proxy http://myusername:mypassword@proxy.acme.com:8080

and it will work (inshallah)