ping! Does anyone has an idea? Jakob Am 08.03.19 um 10:31 schrieb Jakobus Schürz: > Hi there! > > Im new to this list - so hello, hope I'm welcome. > > > My problem is: I have a configuration for my bash saved on a private > git-repo. Every time, i start bash, my .bashrc checks this repo out to > get all changes (alias, some functions, $PS1 and so on). So i can have > my working environment on all my servers with personal login. > > > Now I'm working on a new customer, where github.com is not reachable > (firewall/proxy). Parts of my configuration (some plugins/scripts for > vim) cannot be updated there, because they are hosted on github.com. :-/ > > Now i tried to fiddle in a check, if a repo is reachable in my .bashrc. > And i found out, that git ls-remote is a good choice, because it handles > redirections from http to https correctly behind this proxy. (direct > https links to git-repos do even not work in this surrounding... don't > ask why, please). > > I can check, if my private repo (git bare repo with gitweb) is reachable > (http pull, ssh is also closed!!!) with git ls-remote. But this check > hangs on github.com in case of a redirection from the proxy to a "this > is forbidden"-site... . And it hangs forever (1 Minute, 2 Minutes or > even really forever!) > > Is it possible, to include a "--connection-timeout" and/or the > "--max-time" option for curl, that i can give to my "git ls-remote" > command? So i can call > > git --connection-timeout 3 -m 3 ls-remote <REPOURL> > > and the command stops after 3 seconds with an errorcode, which I can > evaluate? > > I tried netcat and curl directly. In this environment only git ls-remote > will work correctly on reachable repos, but it hangs on blocked... :-/ > > > Thank you for your interests > > > Jakob > >