---
title: Using GIT over a tethered G1 connection
tags: g1 tether android git
status: publish
type: post
published: true
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---
The G1 is awesome because
you can setup a SOCKS proxy and browse (using a web browser) anywhere
you have T-Mobile service.  This means I don't ever have to worry about
a wifi connection, and I am considering cancelling my DSL because the
G3 network is actually fast enough to download files at a reasonable
clip.  However, a SOCKS proxy only works through your browser, and
therefore, other services are not possible.  Which means I cannot use
GIT to checkin files.  If I am using my G1 for internet access, I am
probably traveling.  And, if I am traveling and coding, it makes me
very nervous to not be able to push my files up in case my laptop were
stolen.  I really wanted to figure out a way to use GIT with my
tethered android phone. 

To use this, first install tetherbot.  To use the tethering for
browsing using a web browser, you plug in the phone, enable USB
debugging, and then start the SOCKS proxy on your phone.  Then, you
setup a proxy in your browser, which can either be the default
installed proxy, or something like Foxy Proxy.  I used Foxy Proxy. 


The second option in Tetherboth is to create a tunnel.  In my case,
I want to tunnel connections through my phone out to github.  And, I
want to use the SSH port (22) which is what git uses in this case when
it wraps the push inside an SSH connection.&#0160; I enter &quot;<a href="http://github.com/" target="_blank">github.com</a>&quot; into the first field marked &quot;IP Address or Hostname&quot; and then 22 into the &quot;Port Forward To&quot;


Now I need to connect the tunnel.&#0160; From within the tools directory
in the Android SDK I run: /adb forward tcp:4444 localabstract:Tunnel.&#0160;
This connects connections made on port 4444 from my laptop to the other
forward on the android phone.


This is a different port than 22 which is the default SSH port, and
we need to tell SSH to use this, so that when git uses SSH to wrap the
connection it uses the proper port.&#0160; To do this, I added two lines to
~/.ssh/config:


Host <a href="http://tunnel.github.com/" target="_blank">tunnel.github.com</a><br />Port 4444

Then, in /etc/hosts I added:

```
127.0.0.1   tunnel.github.com
```

This is a bit of trickery that allows me to tell any service that a connection to <a href="http://tunnel.github.com/" target="_blank">tunnel.github.com</a> should actually go through my laptop rather than out to a real server on the internet.&#0160;

Once this is done, I just add a remote repository to my local git repo.

```
git remote add tunnel git@tunnel.github.com:xrd/vital.git
```

And, then I can push like this: `git push tunnel`. And, I can still push to my regular repository by using the normal git push.