cygwin-ports git access over http?

Thu Mar 29 09:37:00 GMT 2012

Yaakov (Cygwin/X <yselkowitz <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On 2012年03月29日 00:36, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > I'm behind a firewall at work that only allows HTTP access through, so
> > is there a way clone cygwin-ports over HTTP? If not, is there already a
> > Git mirror that provides such access?
>> I'm afraid not; Sourceforge does not provide that as an option.

Rats ... and nobody seems to have cloned to repo.or.cz or github yet.
> > I can clone the individual projects one by one, though. Obviously it
> > would be much nicer if there was a superproject to clone that had those
> > already added as subprojects...
>> Given the ever-increasing number of packages in Ports, just maintaining 
> that would take some effort unless I can automate it.

It should be easy enough to take portslist.txt and create the .submodules file
in the superproject.
> But do you really need *all* of Ports git?

No. But then I don't know what I need yet. I might just as well get it all in
one go rather than get a handful of packages, then finding I need another two or
three... Especially since I would need to clone each package to another public
hosting repository first to even be able to get it.
Achim.
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