Re: GIT Error issue

From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2006, 11:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20060419112135.GA24807@harddisk-recovery.com>
In-Reply-To: <3857255c0604190416j62abeae8va164896c5100f6ee@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:46:57PM +0530, Shyamal Sadanshio wrote:

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> 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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