Re: Help! My ISP blocks repo.or.cz. How to push changes?

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Jan 12, 2009, 12:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20090112122337.GA7262@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <200901121213.45858.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:13:44PM +0100, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Alex Riesen wrote:
> > 2009/1/12 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> 
> > > Do you have any suggestions to bypass this block for git? I have access
> > > to Linux shell account (no root access, though) which doesn't have
> > > problems with repo.or.cz, so I think I could set up SSH tunnel: but
> > > how? And what to do with access via git:// - move to SSH too?
> > 
> > See man ssh, look for -L. It works for arbitrary ports, so you can redirect
> > git:// port to anywhere. Same for push over ssh, just give another port when
> > connecting.
> 
> Currently I have the folowing in my ~/.ssh/config:
> 
>   # TP S.A. blocks repo.or.cz
>   Host repo.or.cz
> 	NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost yes
> 	HostName localhost
> 	Port 2222
> 
> and I can simply use "git push repo" without any changes.
> But I have to run 
> 
>  $ ssh -f -N -L 2222:repo.or.cz:22 jnareb@host.example.com
> 
> first. Is there any way to automate this?

Something like the following should do the trick:
Host repo.or.cz
	ProxyCommand ssh jnareb@host.example.com nc %h %p

You will need nc (netcat) installed on the host.example.com server, though.

Mike