FW: git via http protocol _and_ a proxy using NTLM authentication -- git 1.5.4.2 & curl 7.18.0

[<Ken.Fuchs@bench.com>]

Need help to modify git to work with the http protocol _and_
a proxy using HTLM authentication.

--

The following changes were made to http.c (for NTLM authentication):

$ diff -c /mnt/nfs/git/git-1.5.4.2/http.c.orig \
    /mnt/nfs/git/git-1.5.4.2/http.c
--- 215,220 ----
--- 215,223 ----
        if (curl_http_proxy)
                curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXY,
curl_http_proxy);

+       curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH,
(long)CURLAUTH_NTLM);
+       curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD,
+               "<user-id>:<password>");
+
        return result;
  }
$

--

git fetch _not_ working via an NTML proxy:

$ http_proxy=<proxy-domain>:<proxy-port> GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 \
    git fetch http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

[A few paragraphs of proxy authentication debug output that
BogoFilter apparently gives a high SPAM quotient to, so I've
given up trying to include it.]

fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD
$ 

It seems that git fetch (via HTLM proxy) works until

> fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD

git 1.5.4.2 dies on line 158 of builtin-fetch.c,
because the call to get_remote_ref() in remote.c fails.

Does anything need to be changed in remote.c?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Ken Fuchs