From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Using Git to update more than one machine (one without network access) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:10:13 -0500 Message-ID: <511.1235581813@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LcNI3-0001Oo-7W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:11:23 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LcNI2-0001My-53 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:11:22 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51043 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LcNI1-0001MZ-WA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:11:22 -0500 Received: from qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.56]:52278) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LcNI0-0005Rz-Hk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:11:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Paul Mead of "Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:38:27 GMT." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Paul Mead Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Paul Mead wrote: > I'm trying to use git to keep my org-mode version up to date on my personal and > work laptops. > > The only problem is that my work laptop has a firewall on it which does not > allow git traffic to pass. > > There is another possibility that you might want to investigate: if there is a SOCKS proxy server available at work, you can arrange to pass git traffic through that. You'll need a SOCKS client (e.g. dante or tsocks works fine on Linux - I'm completely ignorant about Windows), and a tiny amount of configuration to make your client point to the SOCKS server. Then instead of git clone git://... git pull you say socksify git clone git://... socksify git pull (that's with dante) or tsocks git clone git://... tsocks git pull (with tsocks) and you are done. Also, it might be possible to use HTTP (presumably, you have an http proxy at work to get through the firewall) instead of the GIT protocol to do the pull, but I believe that depends on whether the repository has been set up properly to allow that - I have not tried it in the org case, but I was using it for the mainline Linux kernel before I had set up the SOCKS proxy service: it was slower but it worked. HTH, Nick