Re: git protocol over port-forwarding

["Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On 3/15/07, Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 21:05:37 (+0000) Julian Phillips writes:
> >...
> >I don't think there is anything that needs changing with the git daemon
> >... or at least I was able to successfully clone over an SSH port forward.
> >
> >I did get the same error as you originally, but this was due to SSH
> >failing to setup the tunnel connection (checking the logs showed that I
> >had got the hostname in the forward wrong).
>
> Ok, so were you doing something like this:
>
> % git clone git://localhost:5700/project
>
> etc.?  and not using the ssh protocol, like this:
>
> % git clone ssh://...

I think pure port forwarding won't support git+ssh. For that you need
the proxycommand approach I mentioned. Actually, I think there's a
more elegant approach just saying

Host fooproxied
    ProxyCommand ssh -q -a foo.yourdomain nc -q0 %h 22

cheers,



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