A coreection to my correction: the correct URL should be "git://git.evergreen-ils.org/working/Evergreen.git" (a forward slash, not a colon, between "org" and "working"), for doing anonymous (non-SSH) pulls.
-- Scott On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Scott Prater <[email protected]> wrote: > I ran into a problem this morning, when setting up git to work with > the Evergreen "working" repo. > > Following the instructions on the wiki page > http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:git in the section > "Quick Start for Evergreen contributors", I added the remote working > repo using this command: > > git remote add working git://git.evergreen-ils.org:working/Evergreen.git > > When I then ran "git fetch --all", I received the following error: > > $ git fetch --all > Fetching origin > Fetching working > fatal: Unable to look up git.evergreen-ils.org (port working) > (Servname not supported for ai_socktype) > error: Could not fetch working > > A little bit of Googling indicated that the format of the URL passed > to "git remote add" was incorrect; "working" was being interpreted as > the port portion of the URL. The correct format is the SSH format: > > [email protected]:working/Evergreen.git > > So I ran the following: > > git remote rm working > git remote add working [email protected]:working/Evergreen.git > git fetch --all > > ... and everything was happy. > > I'm willing to update the documentation, if a more experienced git > user can confirm that the URL should indeed be corrected. > > thanks, > > -- Scott
