On Friday, October 7, 2011, Andrey Somov <[email protected]> wrote: >>The only platform I know of where git works less than brilliantly is >>Windows, which ones are you struggling with? > I think the picture is slightly different. On Windows, Git is just ugly and > awful, you have to install and configure a zillion of tools to get finally > _incomplete_ support. I do not want to start a DVCS war here. It is not the > proper place. And I do not argue the decision to use Git for CouchDB. I just > want to get up-to-date sources. > Yes, I tried Windows and I failed. >
git-scm.org is your friend. > The main platform is Ubuntu 11.04. Only here I can really run the etap > tests. > I am afraid the real problem is that the proxy setting is not respected > somewhere. Because I _could_ clone the Git repository via an Eclipse plugin > (pure Java Git implementation) using Eclipse's proxy definition. But the > quality of the Eclipse plugin is so low that I could not go any further. > When I try the command line, Git fails to connect to the server. All the > other applications work properly. Git is installed via the standard Ubuntu > way. > > I even tryed the 'hg-git' to get the sources via Mercurial (because > Mercurial works for me like a charm on both Ubuntu and Windows). > Unfortunately, it also has the problems with proxy definition. > > I do not want to waste your time trying to solve it. > > I just want to know whether I can somehow get access to the latest source. > > - > Andrey > there are the setting http.proxy to configure git with a proxy. You can apply it globally or per repository. benoit
