Re: impossible to clone from http

["Johannes Schmid" <jhs jsschmid de>]

Hi!

> I'm behind a proxy and can't clone via git://.  A few weeks ago, I managed
> to build gnome-shell, replacing the git repos by http.
> Today I tried to build everything again, but I cannot clone anything
> anymore
> :  I get :
>  $ bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh
> Checking out jhbuild into /home/tbouffon/Source/jhbuild ... fatal:
> http://git.gnome.org/jhbuild/info/refs not found: did you run git
> update-server-info on the server?

This old cloning caused a performance bottleneck. After some discussion,
Olaf came up with a solution to allow cloning for people with proxies
again, if they have an up-to-date git (1.6.6+).

See also: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.devel.announce/155

Regards,
Johannes