Re: [PATCH] RFC: proxy-command support for git://

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Paul Collins [off-list ref] writes:

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I spend some of my time using a network that only allows outgoing TCP
connections to certain ports, and the git-daemon port is not one of them.
This patch below implements an analogue to ssh's ProxyCommand feature
for git, as a less messy alternative to ssh port forwarding.

Wonderful.

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Questions:

* Can git already do this and I just failed to notice?

Maybe I just failed to notice this too, but I do not think so.

Actually, you could. TWO ways, in fact, afaik.

Just use the "ssh://host/pathname" format (or just "host:pathname") and 
the GIT_SSH environment variable.

You could also override the local command-name with

	git-send-pack --exec=my-local-send-program /machine/repo/path

where the "my-local-send-program" will parse /machine/repo/path thing. At 
least that works with git-send-pack, but it's possible it doesn't work 
with some other logic (ie "git push" might decide that it's unhappy that 
/machine/repo/path doesn't exist locally because it thinks it's a local 
path).

		Linus