Re: Git submodule first time update with proxy

[Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a submodule using HTTP URL. I do this:
>
> $ git submodule init MySubmodule
> $ git submodule update MySubmodule
>
> The 2nd command fails because the HTTP URL cannot be resolved, this is
> because it requires a proxy. I have "http.proxy" setup properly in the
> .git/config of my parent git repository, so I was hoping the submodule
> update function would have a way to specify it to inherit the proxy
> value from the parent config.

Your not the first to suggest it and you probably won't be the last.
It is hard to decide _which_ config variables, if any, should
propagate from the parent. What works for one use-case may not
necessarily work for another.

> How can I set up my submodule?

Probably the easiest thing would be to make your http.proxy
configuration global i.e.

  $ git config --global http.proxy ....

If you don't want to make it a global setting you can setup the
submodule configuration after running init but before running update
i.e.

  $ git submodule init MySubmodule
  $ (cd MySubmodule && git config http.proxy ...)
  $ git submodule update MySubmodule