# Port forwarding

3 messages from 2007-06-12 to 2007-06-12. Participants: Claudio Scordino, Linus Torvalds, Alex Riesen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8575

## Claudio Scordino, 2007-06-12 15:26

Subject: Port forwarding
Message-ID: <466EBB1B.9060405@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/466EBB1B.9060405%40gmail.com

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Hi all,

    how can I specify the port in git-clone when cloning from a server running 
git-daemon ?

The issue is the following.

I need to set port forwarding from a public server to a private server.
The public server, however, already hosts a git-daemon on port 9418.
So, I have to use a different port for the forwarding.

My idea is to let the public server listen on a different port (e.g. 9419) and 
make it redirect all the incoming connections to the port 9418 of the private 
server.

However, I don't know how make git-clone go on a port different than the default 
(9418).

Many thanks in advance,

          Claudio

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## Linus Torvalds, 2007-06-12 18:08

Subject: Re: Port forwarding
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706121103230.14121@woody.linux-foundation.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LFD.0.98.0706121103230.14121%40woody.linux-foundation.org
In-Reply-To: <466EBB1B.9060405@gmail.com>

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Claudio Scordino wrote:
> 
>    how can I specify the port in git-clone when cloning from a server running
> git-daemon ?

Just doing

	git clone git://hostname:port/repo/path/name

should be fine.

> I need to set port forwarding from a public server to a private server.
> The public server, however, already hosts a git-daemon on port 9418.
> So, I have to use a different port for the forwarding.
> 
> My idea is to let the public server listen on a different port (e.g. 9419) and
> make it redirect all the incoming connections to the port 9418 of the private
> server.

I would argue that it probably makes more sense to make the _private_ 
server listen to another port (fewer people who need to use the :<port> 
syntax). But hey, that's a matter of taste.

> However, I don't know how make git-clone go on a port different than the
> default (9418).

See above. The obvious thing should "just work".

		Linus

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## Alex Riesen, 2007-06-12 18:12

Subject: Re: Port forwarding
Message-ID: <20070612181213.GA2459@steel.home>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070612181213.GA2459%40steel.home
In-Reply-To: <466EBB1B.9060405@gmail.com>

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Claudio Scordino, Tue, Jun 12, 2007 17:26:19 +0200:
> 
> However, I don't know how make git-clone go on a port different than the 
> default (9418).
> 

git clone git://server:port/~cloud/project/

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