git checkout help

[Giuseppe Torelli]

Hi,

I've never used git. Googling with these keywords "git checkout remote
repository" gave out a lot of material. I issued:

$ gt[Projects]$ git clone git://git.xfce.org/apps/xarchiver
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/gt/Projects/xarchiver/.git/
git.xfce.org[0: 138.48.2.101]: errno=Connection refused
fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection refused)
gt[Projects]$


git checkout git://git.xfce.org/apps/xarchiver
fatal: Not a git repository
gt[Projects]$ git checkout http://git.xfce.org/git/apps/xarchiver
fatal: Not a git repository
gt[Projects]$

Can someone tell me how to pull out the sources from the git
repository and how to have commit permission?

Thanks,
Giuseppe
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