From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31174C810CE for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:22:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Nov 2010 09:22:19 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,174,1288594800"; d="scan'208";a="625064903" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.13.54]) ([10.255.13.54]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Nov 2010 09:22:16 -0800 Message-ID: <4CD98347.9070402@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:22:15 -0800 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denys Dmytriyenko References: <017987BD9AB15445B9968338EC889BB1082088F12E@AUSX7MCPS301.AMER.DELL.COM> <20101109170207.GA8761@denix.org> In-Reply-To: <20101109170207.GA8761@denix.org> Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: Introduction and Request for HTTP Git Access X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:22:20 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11/09/2010 09:02 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: > 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! It is certainly sub-ideal (but so is git over http), but it should provide the functionality you need. Please give the above a shot and if for some reason it is insufficient, please let us know. -- Darren Hart Yocto Linux Kernel