Re: Introduction and Request for HTTP Git Access

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:31:37AM -0600, Ryan_D_Phillips@Dell.com wrote:
> Good Day!
> 
> My name is Ryan Phillips (irc: rphillips), a former Gentoo Linux Developer, 
> currently a software developer architecting an embedded firmware solution on 
> OE for my employer. With the release of Yocto, we are extremely interested 
> in trying it out and possibly contributing to the project. My cohort working 
> with me is Sean Hudson (irc: darknighte), and is someone who you may see 
> contributions from as well.
> 
> A major stumbling block we must work around is the restrictive firewall and 
> git checkouts. We have found out the git-http-backend works extremely well, 
> and are requesting this support on git.pokylinux.org. We suspect other 
> people within larger corporations would have a similar problem, and by 
> adding this support would help the community at large.

Ryan,

It's nice to see another Gentooist!

Have you looked at core.gitProxy setting or GIT_PROXY_COMMAND environment in 
git-config(1)? People behind strict firewalls been using that for years to 
tunnel their git access through proxies. Used together with things like 
netcat, socat or corkscrew work miracles even with HTTP-only proxies!

-- 
Denys