Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763296AbXFEGRA (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 02:17:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757482AbXFEGQy (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 02:16:54 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.229]:46906 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756712AbXFEGQx (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 02:16:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FaTtv6h4s05kf3gZkCPgCk2mH8UmRIYyQzl9BW+lMnUWLyeSzdEGgHyu+oUo5+wGgPQqeJZ+T8k1keyPmpBincIgGYVsD8Kn0Fi426F9lQvwr3lLu241nTJIgAjuhGBRzNI9xSEroNnel0mAK70kKjpx5HJvoQkmSTCjBrBpK/8= Message-ID: <4ac8254d0706042316n2b78f7b1y5ed81da50b148e7a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:16:52 +0200 From: "Tuncer Ayaz" To: "Tim Bird" Subject: Re: Problem with http URL for stable git tree? Cc: "linux kernel" In-Reply-To: <466488C6.3070100@am.sony.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46646389.7090101@am.sony.com> <20070604211359.GA2046@kroah.com> <466488C6.3070100@am.sony.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1418 Lines: 33 On 6/4/07, Tim Bird wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:10:01PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > >> Greg, > >> > >> I'm having problems cloning the stable git tree for 2.6.21. > >> Here's what I get: > >> > >> $ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.21.y.git stable-2.6.21.y > >> Cannot get remote repository information. > >> Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there? > > > > Ick, don't clone by "http://", please use the git protocol instead: > > git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.21.y.git > > > > that should work better. > > I'm behind a firewall that doesn't allow it. Luckily, the > firewall has some holes to allow me ssh access to a few > external machines. It looks like I can use a "git:" url on a > box outside the firewall, then clone that to inside Sony > with a "git+ssh:" url. > > I'll do that, unless someone else has a better suggestion. > Pushes and pulls will be two steps each, but at least it works. if you have :22 outbound access you could try git+ssh on git.kernel.org. I guess you don't have :22 outbound open, do you? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/