Re: Can't get git clone over https with proxy and invalid certificate...

Hello,

Well, turns out that my problem was that my gcc doesn't like the `-R'
switch!! Strangely enough, ./configure does not check this!! (one
should define Makefile's existing option NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER)

While this seems pretty serious, gcc only shows a tiny message while
compiling ("unrecognized option -R"), not even a warning, and compiles
anyway. So if you "make all install doc install-doc" like me, you
won't see the bug.

I think git build system could be improved somehow to check for that.
I'll perhaps try to make a patch to this during the weekend.

Regards,
-- Giovanni

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

Giovanni Funchal [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Ok, so I have created the following ~/.curlrc:
   netrc
   proxytunnel
   insecure
   proxy = http://proxyserver.com:8080
   proxy-user = proxyuser:proxypassword

...

quoted

$ git clone https://remoteuser@remoteserver.com/.git/
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/.git/
error: Proxy requires authorization!
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

Last time I used Git with an HTTP proxy that required authentication
I was doing it with an environment variable:

 http_proxy=http://me:pass@proxyserver.com:8080 git clone ...

Fortunately this was on a Windows desktop where I was the only
user who was logged into the system, so leaking my password into my
environment for a short duration was about the same risk as putting
into a ~/. file.

--
Shawn.