Re: git clone through http

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On May 30, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On
>> Behalf Of Joel Brobecker
>> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:00 AM
>> To: Frank Ch. Eigler
>> Cc: Simon Marchi; Samuel Bronson; gdb@sourceware.org;
>> overseers@sourceware.org
>> Subject: Re: git clone through http
>> 
>>>>>  2. Somehow set up a "smart" web-based git server. [...] Choice 2
>>>>> is clearly more complicated and more httpd-specific, but also more
>>>>> efficient in most cases.
>>> 
>>> We'll consider it, though an even easier thing we could do is stop
>>> promoting the http:// git URL.
>> 
>> If we do, it would be interesting to know where that is. I double-checked
>> GDB's website, and it only references the "git" protocol.
> 
> I am trying to use the http access to the GDB git repo because I want to run
> automated tests using the master branch using a Jenkins infrastructure.  
> That Jenkins machine has to go through a proxy to access the internet and the 
> proxy does not trigger when using the git protocol.  So I was hoping to fall back
> on the http protocol.

What about doing a local mirror?

Thanks,
Andrew

> 
> We've faced similar issues for eclipse projects and having an http access to
> the repos has proven useful.
> 
> I found the reference to that http access here at the top of the page of the git repo:
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marc
>