From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Unable to connect to the server Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:51:33 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <1190365837.5497.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Kaushalya Satharasinghe X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 26 01:54:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IaKEa-0007MF-SJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:54:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752625AbXIYXwk (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:52:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751859AbXIYXwk (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:52:40 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:40136 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752553AbXIYXwj (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:52:39 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2007 23:52:37 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp057) with SMTP; 26 Sep 2007 01:52:37 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18p3+YyqG8pa51Fi08PKZhJ6O7yFFvKYMR0zaJTxa RaYN3OeLFusGvv X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <1190365837.5497.4.camel@localhost> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Kaushalya Satharasinghe wrote: > I want to checkout a git package. I installed git and when I give the > command > "/root/bin/git clone > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git /home/Kaushalya/moreWork/git_test > " > I got the result as > > Initialized empty Git repository > in /home/Kaushalya/moreWork/git_test/.git/ > git.kernel.org[0: 140.211.167.38]: errno=Connection timed out > fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out) > fetch-pack from > 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git' failed. > > I can ping the 140.211.167.38. I am using Fedora Core 5 hosted through > vmware 5.5. Can anyone help me out here? You're probably quite a few hops away from that machine. However, mmc.git is a fork of the kernel tree, so if you can get ahold of any other kernel repository (for example from repo.or.cz), you can easen the load by using the --reference option to git-clone. Hth, Dscho