You are behind firewall that does not allow rsync access. Use http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git instead. Sathesh Babu Edara wrote: > Thank you. > I installed git-snapshot-20051025 on Linux PC to checkout linux from git >and executed following command ># rsync://ftp.linux-mips.org/git > and I get following message > -bash: rsync://ftp.linux-mips.org/git: No such file or directory. > >I tried the following command also ># git clone rsync://ftp.linux-mips.org/git/linux.git linux.git > and get following message >------------------------------------ >defaulting to local storage area >warning: templates not found /home/sathesh/share/git-core/templates/ >rsync: failed to connect to ftp.linux-mips.org: Connection timed out >rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83) >---------------------------------------- > >Can you suggest me what could be the problem?. Am I missed anything?. > >Thanks in advance. > >Regards, >Sathesh > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ralf Baechle [mailto:ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:13 PM >To: Sathesh Babu Edara >Cc: 'Linux MIPS List' >Subject: Re: Git Repo > >On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:54:24AM +0530, Sathesh Babu Edara wrote: > > > >> I too get same error message.I am new to GIT.I want to checkout >>linux-2.6.12 tag from the git archive.Can some one help me what >>commands I should use to checkout.I am trying to connect GIT repo via >>gitweb from my Windows-XP system. >> >> > >Gitweb is for browsing repositories only, not for checking out. > >If you actually want to checkout from git I suggest you start by installing >Linux; there apparently is a Cygwin port but I expect it to be rather slow >and you may hit more interesting problems with Cygwin. > > Ralf > > > > -- Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh Total Knowledge. CTO http://www.total-knowledge.com
