git checkout help

[David Mohr]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Giuseppe Torelli<colossus73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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]$

I think Brian mentioned earlier that git:// was not ready yet.

> 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?

You have the correct http url, but you need to clone it, I think.

Personally I'll wait until I get my git-shell account, and I can
checkout the ssh URL, just like Brian suggested on the wiki page. That
way it's less git setup trouble.

~David