Re: cloning gnulib from behind a firewall

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 9, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:

> 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
> 

That does work ... although a lot slower than for http://repo.or.cz/r/gnulib.git

Ben