Re: undoing changes with git-checkout -f

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 10, 2006, 05:57 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk6d8aaln.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060110045533.GO18439@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>

Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> writes:

> 	Can we teach the git:// fetch program to use CONNECT over HTTP
> proxies?  rsync can do this, but git:// cannot, so firewalls that block
> 9418 mean we use rsync://
> 	I'm mostly offline this week or I'd take a stab at it.

It's been there for quite some time, although I never liked the way it interfaces with the outside world.

	$ cat .git/config
        [core]
                repositoryformatversion = 0
                filemode = true
                gitproxy = /usr/local/bin/tn-gw-nav-local
	$ cat /usr/local/bin/tn-gw-nav-local
        #!/bin/sh
	# Use squid running at localhost
        exec tn-gw-nav -H -h 127.0.0.1 -p 3128 "$1" "$2"
	$ grep SSL /etc/squid/squid.conf
        acl SSL_ports 443 563 9418 # https snntp git
        http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
	$ git fetch --tags git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/

It is a bit inconvenient that "git clone" wrapper cannot be used on an existing repository, and without an existing repository you cannot have .git/config. You could have the config file in your site-wide template area, but admittably it is a bit awkward.