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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:44:10 -0500
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
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On 2012-03-29 00:36, Achim Gratz wrote:
> I'm behind a firewall at work that only allows HTTP access through, so
> is there a way clone cygwin-ports over HTTP?  If not, is there already a
> Git mirror that provides such access?

I'm afraid not; Sourceforge does not provide that as an option.

> I can clone the individual projects one by one, though.  Obviously it
> would be much nicer if there was a superproject to clone that had those
> already added as subprojects...

Given the ever-increasing number of packages in Ports, just maintaining 
that would take some effort unless I can automate it.

But do you really need *all* of Ports git?


Yaakov

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