On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:46:57PM +0530, Shyamal Sadanshio wrote: > I am newbie to GIT and facing some problem with the GIT usage. I am > trying to clone a repository at www.linux-mips.org with the > following command, I get error message as below: > > ************************************************************************** > [root@sshyamal git-tutorial]# git clone > git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux-malta.git linux-malta.git > git: warning: invalid extra options ignored > > GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.20 (i686-pc-linux-gnu), 12:39:46 Apr 18 2006 > GIT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the > terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free > Software > Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. > Copyright (C) 1993-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > Written by Tudor Hulubei and Andrei Pitis, Bucharest, Romania > > git: fatal error: `chdir' failed: permission denied. You're using the wrong GIT. Remove the GNU Interactive Tools and use git from kernel.org. > *************************************************************************** > > I am exercising this command in root mode. There is absolutely zero reason to run git as root. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html