From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shyamal Sadanshio" Subject: Re: GIT Error issue Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:32:46 +0530 Message-ID: <3857255c0604200802h43582fa5w5bd6093a90ab4b31@mail.gmail.com> References: <3857255c0604190416j62abeae8va164896c5100f6ee@mail.gmail.com> <20060419112135.GA24807@harddisk-recovery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 20 17:03:34 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 1FWagY-0007Gw-86 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:03:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750974AbWDTPCu (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:02:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750975AbWDTPCu (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:02:50 -0400 Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.178]:59152 "EHLO pproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750969AbWDTPCt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:02:49 -0400 Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i49so223369pye for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:02:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=K2zuwXd0rw389k3j6jPGdLbOckRLNDMg4Vr6XDcMxskEKNm3byoNisLj1gHKfiVbo4QfxN5ZyqU9atY3V9SMeCVi5aZZUsFbYse0++bFcAdgdMsPxEXrj59vDQ+fkV59zfZSIXIdlZvmBxCMTPqy7g/QV6Pcb7r0CLIzm43xz5k= Received: by 10.35.91.10 with SMTP id t10mr988363pyl; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.60.20 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:02:46 -0700 (PDT) To: "Erik Mouw" In-Reply-To: <20060419112135.GA24807@harddisk-recovery.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 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 > > -- > +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- > | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands >