From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:55:34 GMT
Subject: Re: FW: git via http protocol _and_ a proxy using NTLMauthentication -- git 1.5.4.2 & curl 7.18.0
Message-ID: <20080227225534.GA16778@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <AA28F077645B324881335614E4F7C428034C08@win-ex01.bench.com>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:10:57PM -0600, Ken.Fuchs@bench.com wrote:
> The command used to generate the above output is:
> 
> $ GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git fetch \
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> 
> I originally tried the following command as suggested by the git
> home page for getting "git by git".
> 
> $ GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone \
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /mnt/s2u1/git/test-git/git/.git/
> Cannot get remote repository information.
> Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
> $
> 
> This seemed like a good test for validating my git installation,
> but this command doesn't access the proxy at all.  The fetch
> command does.  Why the difference?

git-clone is not a builtin yet. When it is (and a patch has come for
that), it will correctly use proxys.

Mike