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Re: Anonymous (read-only) GCC SVN access through a firewall
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Steve Ellcey <sje at cup dot hp dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:19:30 -0800
- Subject: Re: Anonymous (read-only) GCC SVN access through a firewall
- References: <200602092312.PAA02783@hpsje.cup.hp.com>
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:12:54PM -0800, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> I have been trying to help someone who does not have write access to the
> GCC tree get read-only access to the GCC SVN repository through a
> firewall.
>
> Now, I can get through the firewall but I check things out via svn+ssh,
> using my account on gcc.gnu.org. And there seem to be lots of ssh proxy
> tricks out there (corkscrew, etc) to help, but all of these proxy
> methods seem to be based on ssh. The standard anonymous checkout for
> GCC is:
>
> svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk gcc
>
> It does not use ssh. And as far as I can tell a user without write
> permission (without an account on gcc.gnu.org) doesn't have a way to use
> ssh to access the GCC tree. Is that correct? So how does he or she do
> a checkout if the above method doesn't work due to a firewall? Are they
> just out of luck?
I'm in the same situation at work, which is why gcc-testresults no
longer gets daily tests from me.
At one time, Daniel Berlin mentioned that he was looking at enabling
HTTP-based read-only access. Any progress on that, Daniel?