[poky] Introduction and Request for HTTP Git Access

[Darren Hart]

On 11/09/2010 09:02 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:31:37AM -0600, Ryan_D_Phillips at 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