Re: problems cloning the org mode git repo

From: Detlef Steuer <steuer@unibwh.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems cloning the org mode git repo
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:12:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080320141219.5fa8e29a@renner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87abkvspr7.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:09:48 -0400
Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:

> One thing you can try is to verify you can connect to the git port on
> the remote server.  The remote port is 9418 so as long as this outbound
> port is not blocked you should get a quick response with Connected to
> rover4.or.cz.
> 
> bernt@gollum:~/org$ telnet git.or.cz 9418
> Trying 62.24.64.27...
> Connected to rover4.or.cz.
> Escape character is '^]'.

and exactly here it hangs for me :-(
steuer@renner:~> telnet 62.24.64.27 9418
Trying 62.24.64.27...
Connected to 62.24.64.27.
Escape character is '^]'.

That works, but git simply does not work for me.
(did before, so no firewall issue)
git clone git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git
Initialized empty Git repository
in /home/steuer/Softtest/GIT-extern/org-mode/.git/

I did a very long wait, no timeout, nothing happened.

detlef

> telnet> quit
> Connection closed.
> bernt@gollum:~/org$ 
> 
> If it's blocked the Trying 62.24.64.27... will never complete and if you
> don't interrupted it you eventually get a timeout error.
> 
> If it works use ctrl-] to get the telnet> prompt and type quit RETURN
> 
> -Bernt
> 
> 
> Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
> 
> > Hmmm maybe you're behind a (corporate) firewall/proxy that prevents
> > connections to the default git port?
> >
> > git clone works fine for me on linux (but that really isn't a great help
> > for your problem -- sorry)
> >
> > I've never tried using git from cygwin.  It works for me in msysgit so
> > unless you have a really old version of git it's probably a firewall
> > issue on your network.
> >
> > -Bernt
> >
> >
> > "Tim O'Callaghan" <tim.ocallaghan@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Still broken for me.
> >>
> >> /tmp>git clone git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git
> >> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/org-mode/.git/
> >> repo.or.cz[0: 62.24.64.27]: errno=Connection timed out
> >> fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)
> >> fetch-pack from 'git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git' failed.
> >>
> >> Tim.
> >>
> >> On 18/03/2008, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> >>> Try using this URL instead:
> >>>
> >>>     git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git
> >>>
> >>>  as in
> >>>
> >>>  $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  -Bernt
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  "Tim O'Callaghan" <tim.ocallaghan@gmail.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>  > I'm getting the same problem using cygwin git.
> >>>  >
> >>>  > Tim.
> >>>  >
> >>>  > On 18/03/2008, Jose Robins <jorobins@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >>  I tried to get the git repo by cloning and I got the following error. I'm
> >>>  >> just getting into git as well... So what am I doing wrong?
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >>  Thanks,
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >>
> >>>  >>  git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git org-repo
> >>>  >>  Initialized empty Git repository in
> >>>  >> /mnt/users/jrobins/src/org-repo/.git/
> >>>  >>  error: Could not interpret response from server '<?xml version="1.0"
> >>>  >> encoding="utf-8"?>
> >>>  >>  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> >>>  >> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> >>>  >>  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang
> >>>  >>  /users/jrobins/apps/bin/git-clone: line 474: cd:
> >>>  >> /mnt/users/jrobins/src/org-repo/.git/refs/remotes/origin:
> >>>  >> No such file or directory
> >>>  >>  Warning: Remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
> >>>  >>
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