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Shan-x
Shan-x

Reputation: 1176

Using git behind a proxy in python scripts

I work with a proxy which doesn't like git. In most of the cases, I can use export http_proxy and git config --global url."http://".insteadOf git://.

But when I use Yocto's python script, this workaround doesn't work anymore. I'm systematically stopped at Getting branches from remote repo git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-3.14.git.... I suspect these lines to be responsible :

gitcmd = "git ls-remote %s *heads* 2>&1" % (giturl)
tmp = subprocess.Popen(gitcmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read()

I think that after these lines, others will try to connect to git url. The script I use (yocto-bsp) calls others scripts, which call scripts, so it's difficult to say. I have tried to add os.system(git config --global url."http://".insteadOf git://) just before, but it does peanuts.

Of course, I could try and modify all the url manually (or with a parsing script) to replace git:// by http:// manually, but this solution is... hideous. I'd like the modification(s) to be as small as possible and reproductible easily. But most of all, I'd like a working script.

EDIT : according to this page, the git url is git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-3.14 but the correspondant http url is http://git.yoctoproject.org/git/linux-yocto-3.14, so I can't just parse to replace git:// by http://. Definitely not cool.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 634

Answers (1)

Anders
Anders

Reputation: 8981

Well, rewriting the git url does indeed work, also when using YP.

However, you're rewriting scheme doesn't work that well... You're just replacing the git:// part or the url with http://, but if you look at e.g. linux-yocto-3.14, you'll see that this repo is available through the following two URL's:

git://git.yoctoproject.org/linux-yocto-3.14
http://git.yoctoproject.org/git/linux-yocto-3.14

That is you need to rewrite git://git.yoctoproject.org to http://git.yoctoproject.org/git. Thus, you'll need to do this instead:

git config --global url."http://git.yoctoproject.org/git".insteadOf git://git.yoctoproject.org

Which means that you'll have to repeat this exercise for all repositories that are accessed through the git protocol.

Upvotes: 1

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