On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:03:20 +0000, Tim Visher wrote: > ... >> error: Failed connect to git.kernel.org:80; Connection refused >> while accessing http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs >> >> fatal: HTTP request failed >> >> What could be going on here? I can't pull from `git://` as I'm behind >> a firewall. > > It pretty much looks like the firewall doesn't let you directly access > HTTP as well. You may need to use your proxy, and you (seem to) need to > set the environment variable 'http_proxy="http://10.0.0.1:3128";' to > point to your proxy. Google will take you from there, like > http://rip747.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/git-clone-over-http-who-knew/ Strange. I suppose they reconfigured the firewall recently as I never had to set that before and I've tracked git through http for over a year. I ended up setting `http.proxy` in ~/.gitconfig. Thanks! -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html