Re: [PATCH] RFC: proxy-command support for git://

[Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com>]

Another way to do this would be using the ~/.ssh/config file.  It would
look something like this:

Host host
  ProxyCommand ...

Or, more generically...

Host *.*
  ProxyCommand ...

Host *.* assumes that if the machine name has a '.' in it then you are
trying to get outside the firewall.  This might not be a good assumption
but it works well where I am.

Then use host:pathname or ssh://host/pathname or whatever.

The advantage of using this is that it works for anything that uses ssh
to get outside the firewall.  Not just git.  So, setup is minimal.

Carl

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:22:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Paul Collins <paul@briny.ondioline.org> writes:
> > 
> > > I spend some of my time using a network that only allows outgoing TCP
> > > connections to certain ports, and the git-daemon port is not one of them.
> > > This patch below implements an analogue to ssh's ProxyCommand feature
> > > for git, as a less messy alternative to ssh port forwarding.
> > 
> > Wonderful.
> > 
> > > Questions:
> > >
> > > * Can git already do this and I just failed to notice?
> > 
> > Maybe I just failed to notice this too, but I do not think so.
> 
> Actually, you could. TWO ways, in fact, afaik.
> 
> Just use the "ssh://host/pathname" format (or just "host:pathname") and 
> the GIT_SSH environment variable.
> 
> You could also override the local command-name with
> 
> 	git-send-pack --exec=my-local-send-program /machine/repo/path
> 
> where the "my-local-send-program" will parse /machine/repo/path thing. At 
> least that works with git-send-pack, but it's possible it doesn't work 
> with some other logic (ie "git push" might decide that it's unhappy that 
> /machine/repo/path doesn't exist locally because it thinks it's a local 
> path).
> 
> 		Linus
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