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Re: git clone through http
- From: Samuel Bronson <naesten at gmail dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 18:33:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: git clone through http
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Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
> Is there an advantage of adding "http" support, since already have
> access via the "git" protocol? The latter is what we document on
> the GDB web pages.
Well, it works through more firewalls. I've had trouble accessing
git://sourceware.org from the Debian porterboxes that are hosted by ARM
in the past (probably a few months ago?)
I don't imagine that's the only place to ever block outgoing git://
connections.
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