Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: allow setting a custom GIT binary for transparent proxying

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 03:06:58PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/20/2017 09:10 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Some users can't run a bare 'git' command, due to need for a transparent
> > proxying solution such as 'tsocks'. This adds an argument to configure to
> > let users specify such a thing:
> > 
> >   ./configure --with-git="tsocks git"
> > 
> > The submodule script is also updated to give the user a hint about using 
> > this
> > flag, if we fail to checkout modules.
> 
> Does my hint about using 'git config url.XYZ.insteadof git://...' do the
> trick without needing this patch?

IIUC, that only works if the developer can't access 'git://' URLs but
can access 'https://' URLs. So supporting tunnelling via a tsocks like
program looks like a more generalized solution to me.

Regards,
Daniel
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