[Orgmode] Re: Using Git to update more than one machine (one without network access)

[Paul Mead]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos <at> hp.com> writes:


> There is another possibility that you might want to investigate: if
> there is a SOCKS proxy server available at work, you can arrange to pass
> git traffic through that.  

Nice idea, sadly even the identity of the proxy server is hidden, so I guess
that may not be an option either.

> Also, it might be possible to use HTTP (presumably, you have an http
> proxy at work to get through the firewall) instead of the GIT protocol
> to do the pull, but I believe that depends on whether the repository has
> been set up properly to allow that - I have not tried it in the org
> case, but I was using it for the mainline Linux kernel before I had set
> up the SOCKS proxy service: it was slower but it worked.

That would be a nice solution, but I just tried using git clone
http://repo.or.cz/org-mode and it caused an error, so that doesn't seem to be a
working route, sadly.

Thanks
Paul