There is currently the situation that on some schools (and maybe also firms) in this region that only whitelisted ports to the outside world are opened. Connections are established through a socks proxy when you want to connect to a computer which is not part of the local network. They use simple pattern matching to find "dangerous" words before delivering the content to the client which of course creates many false positives. Most of time they disable encrypted versions of a protocol (like HTTPS or POP3S) so the users most use the unencrypted versions. The problem is that some content is only provided when you connect over https on some webpages (like login pages or svn commit support on sourceforge). "Unknown" ports will also be filtered - so git-fetch over git's own protocol will propably fail.

I was searching for an equivalent of git-archive for creating a bit identical version of the tar.gz each time I run it. I couldn't find anything like that and svn export .. && tar cvfz .. will result in different hash sums for different people/time it gets started. This has different reasons:

I got a copy of "Das schwarze Auge - Nordlandtriologie" from Jowood and inspected the installation medium to get a working installation under my free operating system of choice. It has only one interesting file - Setup1.cab which can be extracted by cabextract. Of course, this will result in a non working directory structure but this is nothing we cannot fix. (I will skip the InstallShield script stuff here)