On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 15:19 -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:12:54PM -0800, Steve Ellcey wrote: > > I have been trying to help someone who does not have write access to the > > GCC tree get read-only access to the GCC SVN repository through a > > firewall. > > > > Now, I can get through the firewall but I check things out via svn+ssh, > > using my account on gcc.gnu.org. And there seem to be lots of ssh proxy > > tricks out there (corkscrew, etc) to help, but all of these proxy > > methods seem to be based on ssh. The standard anonymous checkout for > > GCC is: > > > > svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk gcc > > > > It does not use ssh. And as far as I can tell a user without write > > permission (without an account on gcc.gnu.org) doesn't have a way to use > > ssh to access the GCC tree. Is that correct? So how does he or she do > > a checkout if the above method doesn't work due to a firewall? Are they > > just out of luck? > > I'm in the same situation at work, which is why gcc-testresults no > longer gets daily tests from me. > > At one time, Daniel Berlin mentioned that he was looking at enabling > HTTP-based read-only access. Any progress on that, Daniel?
Errr, I emailed you privately a few months ago saying i had set up http access :) just replace svn:// with http:// (note if it becomes too much of a burden on the server, we will probably have to limit or turn it off). >