[poky] Introduction and Request for HTTP Git Access

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:34:48AM -0600, Ryan D Phillips wrote:
> On 11/9/2010 11:22 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> I don't understand the comment that git over http is sub-ideal (see github 
> using https for git by default), but the issue we have is the proxy server 
> restricts outbound ports to 80 and 443, and doesn't allow CONNECT.

git-over-http used to be sub-ideal until version 1.6.6 of git, as it only 
provided "dumb" read-only access. Now, with git-http-backend(1) there is a 
"smart" transport available, which can also handle pushing over https...

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-http-backend.html
http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html

-- 
Denys