Re: Unable to connect to the server

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 25, 2007, 23:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709260048370.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1190365837.5497.4.camel@localhost>

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Kaushalya Satharasinghe wrote:

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> 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