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how to clone from github behindd a proxy?

Subject: how to clone from github behindd a proxy?

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2 messages between Jan 20, 2010 and Jan 21, 2010.

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Tim Michelsen· Jan 20, 2010, 09:29 UTC · lore

Hello, I tried to clone from behind a proxy firewall.

It doesn't work.
How shall I improve?
set GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1
git config --global http.proxy proxy.example.com:8000
git clone http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas
Initialized empty Git repository in D:\sourcecode/traitsbackendpyjamas/.git/
* Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults
* About to connect() to proxy proxy.example.com on port 8000 (#0)
*   Trying 149.233.100.7... * Connected to proxy.example.com (149.233.100.7)
port 8000 (#0)
 GET http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: git/1.6.5.1.1366.g8ed9
Host: github.com
Accept: */*
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache
* The requested URL returned error: 404
* Closing connection #0
fatal: http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs not found: did you
run git update-server-info on the server?

Thanks in advance, Timmie

Tay Ray Chuan· Jan 21, 2010, 00:54 UTC · re: Tim Michelsen · lore

Re: how to clone from github behindd a proxy?

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Tim Michelsen <timmichelsen@gmx-topmail.de> wrote:

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> git clone http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas
> Initialized empty Git repository in D:\sourcecode/traitsbackendpyjamas/.git/
> * Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults
> * About to connect() to proxy proxy.example.com on port 8000 (#0)
> *   Trying 149.233.100.7... * Connected to proxy.example.com (149.233.100.7)
> port 8000 (#0)
>  GET http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: git/1.6.5.1.1366.g8ed9
> Host: github.com
> Accept: */*
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
> Pragma: no-cache
>
> * The requested URL returned error: 404
> * Closing connection #0
> fatal: http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs not found: did you
> run git update-server-info on the server?
this isn't a problem with your proxy - git connects to your proxy fine.

The problem is that the info/refs file isn't found at the repo URL you specified.

I think for github repos, you need to put a ".git" behind the url, so you should try cloning from

  http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas.git
instead.
-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan

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