Re: Windows binaries for qgit 2.0

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Marco Costalba wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2007 10:51 AM, Abdelrazak Younes <younes.a@free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to help you with that but I can't retrieve the repository:
> >
> > $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit4.git qgit4.git
> > Initialized empty Git repository in d:/devel/git/qgit4/qgit4.git/.git/
> > git.kernel.org[0: 130.239.17.7]: errno=Invalid argument
> > git.kernel.org[1: 199.6.1.166]: errno=Bad file descriptor
> > git.kernel.org[2: 204.152.191.8]: errno=Bad file descriptor
> > git.kernel.org[3: 204.152.191.40]: errno=Bad file descriptor
> > fatal: unable to connect a socket (Bad file descriptor)
> > fetch-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit4.git' failed.

This looks familiar.  It happens when there was no response to the 4 IPs 
of git.kernel.org.  This might be due to a firewall which blocks git://

> > $ git clone http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit4.git qgit4.git 
> > Initialized empty Git repository in d:/devel/git/qgit4/qgit4.git/.git/ 
> > Cannot get remote repository information. Perhaps 
> > git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
> 
> Well, perhaps, but to clone with git protocol you don't need that.

It is generally a good idea to provide the server-info for dumb protocols, 
because not everybody is fortunate enough (like you, evidently, because 
you do not seem to care all that much...) to control her outbound firewall 
restrictions.

Ciao,
Dscho