How can I make git accept a self signed certificate?

Using Git, is there a way to tell it to accept a self signed certificate?

I am using an https server to host a git server but for now the certificate is self signed.

When I try to create the repo there for the first time:

git push origin master -f

I get the error:

error: Cannot access URL     https://the server/git.aspx/PocketReferences/, return code 22fatal: git-http-push failed