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.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/org$ telnet git.or.cz 9418 Trying 62.24.64.27... Connected to rover4.or.cz. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> > I'm getting the same problem using cygwin git. >>> > >>> > Tim. >>> > >>> > On 18/03/2008, Jose Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >>> >> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >>> >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>> >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Emacs-orgmode mailing list >>> > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >>> > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
