Re: GIT Error issue

["Shyamal Sadanshio" <shyamal.sadanshio@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Yes, I had installed a wrong GIT.
Thanks it worked now!
However, with a http protocol instead of git and rsync because of
firewall issue, I guess!

Thanks and Regards,
Shyamal

On 4/19/06, Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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