2013 March 04 git

Using proxy for git pull and push

Use git proxy on git protocol

git protocol is read only for git, so we can just clone/pull git repo using this protocol. It is git:// like. We are using core.gitproxy feature here. Firstly, insert the config to your gitconfig file, whether for global or not. config like this:

[core]
	gitproxy = gitproxy-command

Then, we should create the gitproxy-command by ourselves. For example(the proxy is 10.167.1.1:8080):

$ cat /usr/bin/gitproxy-command
#!/bin/bash
PROXY=10.167.1.1
PROXYPORT=8080
exec socat STDIO PROXY:$PROXY:$1:$2,proxyport=$PROXYPORT

The socat tool used in above command line can be found here:http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/

proxy for git send-email

proxy is useful for us, especially for git send-email by gmail. The msmtp can set proxy in the .msmtprc config file like:

# gmail
account gmail
host smtp.gmail.com
port 587
proxy_host 127.0.0.1
proxy_port 1080
from wanlong.gao@gmail.com
auth on
user wanlong.gao@gmail.com
password xxx

Then we can use git send-email with msmtp server:

git send-email --smtp-server /usr/bin/msmtp xxx.patch