On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Hector troy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, I am a newbie on this open source world, and sincerely > trying to make contribution to the development of Numpy. I was trying to > learn about making patches from > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/dev/gitwash/patching.html but unable to get > the clone of Numpy repository. > > In the terminal error massage shown is - > > $hector@hector:~$ sudo git clone git://github.com/numpy/numpy.git > [sudo] password for hector: > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/hector/numpy/.git/ > github.com[0: 207.97.227.239]: errno=Connection timed out > fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out) > $hector@hector:~$
You should try through http: it may be that your network blocks the git protocol/port: git clone http://github.com/numpy/numpy.git You should also avoid using sudo to clone repositories (although it is unlikely to be the cause of your issue). cheers, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
