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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What options besides (required?) "host=<server>[:<port>]" are supported?
> 
> Currently only host is supported.  And yea, it takes the :<port> if
> the client included the port number in the URL (git://foo:8813/path).

Ok, I'm wrong.  It *doesn't* send the port.  The reason is obtuse,
but git_tcp_connect() clobbers the port number out of the host
name string, so that later when git_connect() sends this "host=%s",
only the host name is transmitted.
 
> Actually, I just realized JGit isn't compliant here.  It doesn't
> send the :<port> like C Git would.

So, actually JGit is compliant here.
 
> > Do I understand correctly that "host=<host>" information is required
> > for core.gitProxy to work, isn't it?

If core.gitProxy or GIT_PROXY_COMMAND are set, you can lie to the
remote git daemon about the host.  E.g.:

  $ cat proxy.sh
  #!/bin/sh
  exec nc git.kernel.org 9418

  GIT_PROXY_COMMAND=proxy.sh git ls-remote git://github.com/foo.git

During that kernel.org receives "\0host=github.com\0" host header,
which is not the name you connected to it as.  :-)

In practice I doubt anyone would do that, but, you can confuse
yourself.  I guess about equally as well as url.insteadof.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.