Re: cloning gnulib from behind a firewall

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

> On 09/08/2010 01:00 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> I'd like to clone gnulib from behind my company's firewall.
>> 
>> The ports for git and cvs are closed, so I tried http, and obtained the 
>> error below.
>> 
>>      export http_proxy=...
>>      git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git
>>      Cloning into gnulib...
>>      fatal: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git/info/refs not found: did 
>> you run git update-server-info on the server?
>> 
>> I'm a novice regarding git, but this looks to me like my problem requires a 
>> solution on the savannah end, correct?
> 
> Yes, savannah would have to set up an http server.  But have no fear - the 
> people at repo.or.cz have already set up a clone that mirrors the savannah 
> repository (browse it at http://repo.or.cz/w/gnulib.git), and that mirror 
> provides http service that is usually less than an hour or two behind 
> savannah.  So you can instead clone from:
> 
> git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/gnulib.git
> 
> In fact, I've set up several mirrors on repo.or.cz precisely because I used 
> to work at a job where I was behind a firewall that allowed only http access. 
>  And I found it helpful to do something like:
> 
> git config --global url.http://repo.or.cz/r/.insteadof \
>  git://git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/
> 
> such that cloning other projects like coreutils.git and running bootstrap 
> would then automatically rewrite the submodule URLs to likewise pull from the 
> same location.
> 
> -- 
> Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

Thanks Eric.

Cloning from  ...

        git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/gnulib.git

worked nicely. I liked the "insteadof" suggestion, but when I tried it I got 
the same error as before ... even though ~/.gitconfig has the substitution in 
it.

Does the "insteadof" functionality work for git version 1.7.2.2 when cloning?

Ben