From: Tay Ray Chuan Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:54:27 GMT Subject: Re: how to clone from github behindd a proxy? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Tim Michelsen wrote: > git clone http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas > Initialized empty Git repository in D:\sourcecode/traitsbackendpyjamas/.git/ > * Couldn't find host github.com in the _netrc file; using defaults > * About to connect() to proxy proxy.example.com on port 8000 (#0) > *   Trying 149.233.100.7... * Connected to proxy.example.com (149.233.100.7) > port 8000 (#0) >  GET http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: git/1.6.5.1.1366.g8ed9 > Host: github.com > Accept: */* > Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive > Pragma: no-cache > > * The requested URL returned error: 404 > * Closing connection #0 > fatal: http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas/info/refs not found: did you > run git update-server-info on the server? this isn't a problem with your proxy - git connects to your proxy fine. The problem is that the info/refs file isn't found at the repo URL you specified. I think for github repos, you need to put a ".git" behind the url, so you should try cloning from http://github.com/rwl/traitsbackendpyjamas.git instead. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan