Re: Obtaining sources behind a firewall

[Sree]

2012/2/27 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> On 27 February 2012 10:49, marco atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 2/27/2012 4:25 PM, Sree wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'd like to contribute to the Octave project - I'm a rookie c++
>>> programmer. So I was trying to get the sources - but I'm behind a
>>> highly restrictive firewall - so while hg clone works, the git
>>> subclone for gnulib fails because it uses the git:// protocol. [ Only
>>> port 80 and 443 works for me  ]
>>>
>>> I can clone gnulib separately by using
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git. Is there something that I
>>> can do?
>>>
>>
>> basic workaround
>>
>> modify  build-aux/bootstrap   replacing
>>  git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
>> with
>>  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git
>
> Marco, I don't think I explained subrepos carefully enough. The
> bootstrap script by default no longer does the git clone. Instead, hg
> does it as part of its own cloning operations, and updates it as
> necessary if you update to a different hg revision. That is, hg now
> tracks the gnulib revisions alongside its own revisions.
>
> Sree, try adding the following lines to your ~/.hgrc (or Mercurial.ini
> if you're using Windows).
>
>    [subpaths]
>    git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib =  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git

Thank you, that works!

>> Also, could someone point me to resources from where I can get started?
>>
>> TIA

> some documentation
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/docs.html
>
> I suggest to start looking at the open bugs, to be familiar
> with the internal of octave.

Thank you, I'm going through those docs.

-- 
Regards,
Sree