Moving to GitHub: Status Update, Action Required

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 07:54:20AM -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Is there/will there be a story for people who cannot use rsync to pull
> down updates because they're behind a restrictive proxy?
> 
> This affects one of the three computers on which I maintain a MacPorts
> installation.  I currently use the mechanisms described at
> <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN> to get around
> this, but of course those instructions are coupled very tightly to
> SVN.

The same method that works for syncing from SVN has worked for quite a
while for Git and git-svn already, so there will be a way to get your
Portfiles from GitHub using HTTPS.

-- 
Clemens