No I haven't waited long enough. :-S It took so long, that somehow I thought it was broken ... sry.
Thanks for your help! Jakob 2012/6/27 Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com>: > Jakob Lombacher <kont...@lombacher.net> wrote: > >> That I misunderstood. I thought this URL was for cloning as well. >> Because there I got at least that error message es response. >> >> Using http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git I don't get any response at all. >> > > Did you wait long enough? http is *very* slow and there is no progress > feedback during the cloning: > > ,---- > | $ time git clone http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git > | Cloning into org-mode... > | > | real 5m5.885s > | user 0m22.610s > | sys 0m3.660s > `---- > > Using the system monitor applet in Gnome, I see my (gigabit ethernet) > link getting pretty much saturated and I see regular "ticks" on the > disk, so things get trasmitted and saved, but it took more than five > minutes for the whole thing to clone (vs. 2.5 mins for a clone over git > - which also meters progress so you can that it's doing something). > > OTOH, atm I'm not behind a firewall and it's conceivable that your IT > department has shut off access to orgmode somehow. I'd talk to them > about it. Also, if they provide a socks proxy, you might be able to > clone over git using socksify or tsocks and avoid the pain of http. > > Nick > > PS BTW, I know that git gc is recommended on local repos, but is that > applicable to the repo on orgmode.org? and would that help with the > cloning time? 2.5 mins seems long to me. If not gc, is there > something else that would help? > > >> Is there a possibility to clone orgmode via http? >> >> Jakob >> >> >> >> 2012/6/26 Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca>: >> > Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> writes: >> > >> >> Jakob Lombacher <kont...@lombacher.net> writes: >> > >> >>> Btw. >> >>> Here (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html) are two different >> >>> url's given (http://orgmode.org/w/org-mode.git and >> >>> http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git). This is confusing. >> > >> >> git clone http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git >> >> >> > >> >> If you confirm that the above URL works without the /w/ I can fix the >> >> Worg page. >> > >> > I can't find any references to the http://orgmode.org/w/org-mode.git for >> > *cloning* the repository in worg. These links are for users to browse >> > the repository online - not for cloning with git. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Bernt >>