From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shyamal Sadanshio" Subject: GIT Error issue Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:46:57 +0530 Message-ID: <3857255c0604190416j62abeae8va164896c5100f6ee@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 19 13:17:26 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 1FWAgQ-0002gE-Ip for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:17:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750857AbWDSLQ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:16:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750887AbWDSLQ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:16:59 -0400 Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.176]:18958 "EHLO pproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750857AbWDSLQ6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:16:58 -0400 Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i49so1264340pye for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:16:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=B1JZSjvPqI20HVFK9e6Qd4EKOyCaRS3iFV7PyWdmjbtuGSUSfC4pnZ0MeSuA4dI47f9YB2yAGNQhm/i4yCKt1QODW0c61iJ4xIs3nQ7fuDqYFMgtMpGMUjP2VqFEuL9FZ7jyQi+R9ZW51sFdQYJ+D0WAKksfCESNK0UO0IQ6KkQ= Received: by 10.35.8.1 with SMTP id l1mr1252864pyi; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.60.20 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:16:57 -0700 (PDT) To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, 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. *************************************************************************** I am exercising this command in root mode. I have browsed through FAQs/archived mails but haven't come across appropriate solution to this. Can anyone please let me know the problem cause for this issue? Thanks and Regards, Shyamal