Re: undoing changes with git-checkout -f

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 10, 2006, 16:45 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0601101743180.26542@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0601100817h2a288a4ag337c749857f2c7fc@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> On 1/10/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > >       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 think it is good and well with the proxy command support. Everybody can
> > write a little script.
> >
> > Otherwise, where would it end? If you include http_proxy functionality in
> > git, why not also https_proxy functionality? And if that, why not
> 
> And, BTW, why not? It may as well stop here.

Because it's not the purpose of git. It is the purpose of a tunnel. Let's not make the mistake of Microsoft here: integrate everything until everything breaks.

Ciao, Dscho