Re: cloning gnulib from behind a firewall

[Jarno Rajahalme]

On Sep 9, 2010, at 16:52 , ext Ben Abbott wrote:
> Thanks Eric.
> 
> Cloning from  ...
> 
>       git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/gnulib.git
> 
> worked nicely. I liked the "insteadof" suggestion, but when I tried it I got 
> the same error as before ... even though ~/.gitconfig has the substitution in 
> it.
> 
> Does the "insteadof" functionality work for git version 1.7.2.2 when cloning?
> 
> Ben
> 


I struggled with the same issue a week ago, ended up replacing the "url = git:" 
line in the gnulib/.git/config with the "url = 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git";, enabling me to pull the updates to 
my existing gnulib repo while behind a firewall.

  Jarno