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

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Ken.Fuchs@bench.com wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Ken Fuchs wrote:
> > 
> > [Ken did not say who said this:]
> 
> Sorry, Mike Hommey wrote the following on 27 Feb 2008:
> 
> > > > git-clone is not a builtin yet. When it is (and a patch 
> > > > has come for that), it will correctly use proxys.
> > > 
> > > Is there a work-around for cloning a git repository via a proxy?
> 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > Just export "http_proxy".  AFAICT this works... See
> > 
> >
> http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git?a=commitdiff;h=257a62710c0253d940a59b6fb
> 2f371afa84dcf56
> 
> > for a working example.
> 
> Unfortunately, this will not work because "git clone" is
> implemented by git-clone.sh and has no support for dealing
> with proxies at all.

I fail to see why git-clone.sh, which uses git http-fetch directly, should 
behave differently from git fetch, which uses git http-fetch directly.

I strongly suspect that you did not even try what I suggested.

> So it seems that git's http protocol via a proxy isn't completely 
> supported.

If that should really be the case, well, Git is a programmers' tool, so 
you should be perfectly able to find out what is happening _exactly_.

If not, well, I heard subversion and Mercurial have nice Windows support.

Ciao,
Dscho