Re: [boost] [git help] GitHub boostorg library authentication

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:00 AM, wrote:

Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:03:01 -0700 From: Dave Abrahams To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] [git help] GitHub boostorg library authentication Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain

Daniel Pfeifer writes:

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2013/10/29 Daniel James :

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On 29 October 2013 04:36, Dave Abrahams wrote:

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The super-project can't use github's git urls as they don't allow anonymous access. I believe the super-project should be using https for submodules, rather than http.

Why is that? Because it's possible to commit through https?

Yes.

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But won't someone complain that they can't access https behind their corporate firewall? It always seems like there's no right answer in this territory.

Oh right, I hadn't thought of that. Making it easy to check out probably should be the priority.

I am behind a corporate firewall and I cannot access git repositories through ssh. https works in both directions (pull and push).

Yes, different corporate firewalls block different protocols. But I'm happy to change to https if everyone believes that will work better overall.

In the .gitmodules file you can use relative urls, e.g. [submodule "smart_ptr"] path = libs/smart_ptr url = ../smart_ptr # url = http://github.com/boostorg/smart_ptr.git fetchRecurseSubmodules = on-demand The protocol used to access the super-project boost is what will be used to retrieve the submodule projects. This might help with issues accessing the repositories, although the super-project will have to accessed via http/https (or whatever ports are open through the firewall). This also makes the whole repository structure relocatable, e.g. a development team using boost can clone all the repositories to their local development server without having to modify the .gitmodules file in the boost super-project. Unfortunately, there's no good way I'm aware of to clone all the repositories as bare repositories. Maybe the latest changes in how git submodules are stored (i.e. under .git/modules) will help. Michael