From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Mouw Subject: Re: GIT Error issue Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:21:36 +0200 Organization: Harddisk-recovery.com Message-ID: <20060419112135.GA24807@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <3857255c0604190416j62abeae8va164896c5100f6ee@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 19 13:21:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWAkh-0003Ur-6z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:21:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750897AbWDSLVk (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:21:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750899AbWDSLVk (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:21:40 -0400 Received: from dtp.xs4all.nl ([80.126.206.180]:100 "HELO abra2.bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750891AbWDSLVj (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:21:39 -0400 Received: (qmail 17827 invoked by uid 501); 19 Apr 2006 13:21:36 +0200 To: Shyamal Sadanshio Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3857255c0604190416j62abeae8va164896c5100f6ee@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:46:57PM +0530, Shyamal Sadanshio wrote: > I am newbie to GIT and facing some problem with the GIT usage. I am > trying to clone a repository at www.linux-mips.org with the > following command, I get error message as below: > > ************************************************************************** > [root@sshyamal git-tutorial]# git clone > git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux-malta.git linux-malta.git > git: warning: invalid extra options ignored > > GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.20 (i686-pc-linux-gnu), 12:39:46 Apr 18 2006 > GIT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the > terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free > Software > Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. > Copyright (C) 1993-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > Written by Tudor Hulubei and Andrei Pitis, Bucharest, Romania > > git: fatal error: `chdir' failed: permission denied. You're using the wrong GIT. Remove the GNU Interactive Tools and use git from kernel.org. > *************************************************************************** > > I am exercising this command in root mode. There is absolutely zero reason to run git as root. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands