David Gerard wrote: > How can I get wine from git through a proxy server? > > I tried the usual clone command but substituting http:// for git://, > set $http_proxy (per git man page) to the name of my proxy server and > got: > > $ git clone http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine > Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/d/wine/.git/ > Cannot get remote repository information. > Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there? > > Then I tried again with git-config --global http.proxy [name of > proxy], still didn't work. > > Is the above command correct? Does git use some other way to set the > http proxy server? Is the wine git server not set up for http updates? > > > - d. Works fine here. Check that you properly configured proxy: 1). Set environment variable for proxy server: # export http_proxy <proxyserver>:<port number> Eg. # export http_proxy myproxy.com:80
