[OT] Re: Git via a proxy server?

[Petr Vandrovec <petr@vmware.com>]

Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:44:23 -0500 Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> 
> 
>>Rsync protocol for git is not working for some reason when I pick up the
>>trees; apparently others share my experience. So I switched to the git
>>protocol. I can pick up the trees via git if I am outside Adaptec's
>>network, but inside I need to go through the proxy server.
> 
> 
> I have successfully used transconnect
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/transconnect) for tunnelling git
> protocol through a HTTP proxy (squid in my case) supporting the CONNECT
> method.
> 
> Git also supports the GIT_PROXY_COMMAND environment variable (or
> core.gitproxy config option), through which you can specify a program to
> be run instead of connecting to a TCP port - then you can use netcat for
> connecting through proxy; however, I have not tried this.

I know I'm comming kinda late, but I'm using:

export GIT_PROXY_COMMAND=/usr/local/bin/proxy-cmd.sh

and proxy-cmd.sh is just single-line command glued from what I found 
available in /bin:

#! /bin/bash

(echo "CONNECT $1:$2 HTTP/1.0"; echo; cat ) | socket 
proxy.ourcompany.com 3128 | (read a; read a; cat )

Replace socket's arguments 'proxy.ourcompany.com 3128' with your http 
proxy.  Fortunately our proxy does not see anything wrong with git's port.
				Best regards,
					Petr Vandrovec