Yaakov (Cygwin/X <yselkowitz <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes: > On 2012-03-29 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple