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Re: git clone through http
- From: pinskia at gmail dot com
- To: Marc Khouzam <marc dot khouzam at ericsson dot com>
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at elastic dot org>, Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>, Samuel Bronson <naesten at gmail dot com>, "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>, "overseers at sourceware dot org" <overseers at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 08:21:31 -0700
- Subject: Re: git clone through http
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On May 30, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On
>> Behalf Of Joel Brobecker
>> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:00 AM
>> To: Frank Ch. Eigler
>> Cc: Simon Marchi; Samuel Bronson; gdb@sourceware.org;
>> overseers@sourceware.org
>> Subject: Re: git clone through http
>>
>>>>> 2. Somehow set up a "smart" web-based git server. [...] Choice 2
>>>>> is clearly more complicated and more httpd-specific, but also more
>>>>> efficient in most cases.
>>>
>>> We'll consider it, though an even easier thing we could do is stop
>>> promoting the http:// git URL.
>>
>> If we do, it would be interesting to know where that is. I double-checked
>> GDB's website, and it only references the "git" protocol.
>
> I am trying to use the http access to the GDB git repo because I want to run
> automated tests using the master branch using a Jenkins infrastructure.
> That Jenkins machine has to go through a proxy to access the internet and the
> proxy does not trigger when using the git protocol. So I was hoping to fall back
> on the http protocol.
What about doing a local mirror?
Thanks,
Andrew
>
> We've faced similar issues for eclipse projects and having an http access to
> the repos has proven useful.
>
> I found the reference to that http access here at the top of the page of the git repo:
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git
>
> Thanks
>
> Marc
>