On Sep 9, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Jarno Rajahalme wrote: > On Sep 9, 2010, at 16:52 , ext Ben Abbott wrote: >> Thanks Eric. >> >> Cloning from ... >> >> git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/gnulib.git >> >> worked nicely. I liked the "insteadof" suggestion, but when I tried it I got >> the same error as before ... even though ~/.gitconfig has the substitution >> in it. >> >> Does the "insteadof" functionality work for git version 1.7.2.2 when cloning? >> >> Ben > > I struggled with the same issue a week ago, ended up replacing the "url = > git:" line in the gnulib/.git/config with the "url = > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git";, enabling me to pull the updates to > my existing gnulib repo while behind a firewall. > > Jarno >
That does work ... although a lot slower than for http://repo.or.cz/r/gnulib.git Ben
