[Buildroot] Access to Buildroot git via https

Alexey Brodkin Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Mon Jul 18 08:50:51 UTC 2016


Hi Thomas,

On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 10:49 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:44:00 +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm wondering if there's a way to access Buildroot main git repo via HTTPS?
> > Here (https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/) it is mentioned only git protocol URL:
> > git://git.busybox.net/buildroot which doesn't work behind some corporate firewalls
> > (and I'm tired asking IT guys to open git port for each particular server IP).
> > 
> > IMHO HTTPS option would be very convenient especially keeping in mind very few
> > people have rights to commit.
> It would indeed be useful. But in the mean time, you can already get
> Buildroot from https://, by using the Github mirror at
> https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/.

Indeed that's what I did but from purist POV true mainline git repo
is a little-bit better solution :)

-Alexey


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