Suggest using url.$URL.insteadOf to speed up "go get"
By setting the url.https://gwt.googlesource.com/.insteadOf option to
git://gwt.googlesource.com/, when "go get" tries to first download
buildglue from git://gwt.googlesource.com/buildglue, git will
automatically rewrite the URL to use https:// and avoid the
significant delay.
The url.$URL.insteadOf option is documented in the git-fetch manual.
Change-Id: I50ab5b669d5026f011c35c1a19ec0c6dc1b37762
diff --git a/README b/README
index ec421b7..67f41be 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
Buildglue follows normal Go project conventions, so it can be
downloaded and installed in just a few steps:
+ # Configure Git to use https:// instead of git://
+ # (Optional, but makes "go get" below much faster.)
+ git config --global url.https://gwt.googlesource.com/.insteadOf git://gwt.googlesource.com/
+
# Create a Go workspace (if you don't have one already)
mkdir buildglue
export GOPATH=$PWD/buildglue
@@ -18,7 +22,3 @@
The $GOPATH/src/gwt.googlesource.com/buildglue.git directory will now
contain a clone of the buildglue Git repo, and the $GOPATH/bin
directory will contain the compiled commands.
-
-(Caveat: Because googlesource.com currently silently ignores TCP
-connections to port 9418 instead of rejecting them, the "go get"
-command takes longer than necessary to download initially.)
