[Numpy-discussion] Unable to clone git repository

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Dave <dave.hirschfeld at gmail.com> wrote:
> Disclaimer: I'm on windows (Win7 x64)
>
> Following the instructions at:
>
> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/dev/gitwash/following_latest.html
>
> I got the following (rather unhelpful) error message:
>
> C:\dev\src>git clone git://github.com/numpy/numpy.git
> Cloning into numpy...
> github.com[0: 207.97.227.239]: errno=No error
> fatal: unable to connect a socket (No error)
>
>
> After a bit of googling I got the vague impression that this may possibly
> be to do with work blocking access? Fortunately I was able clone the read
> only https url - https://github.com/numpy/numpy
>
> C:\dev\src>git clone https://github.com/numpy/numpy.git
> Cloning into numpy...
> remote: Counting objects: 60461, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (13476/13476), done.
> remote: Total 60461 (delta 47928), reused 58235 (delta 46157)
> Receiving objects: 100% (60461/60461), 19.41 MiB | 2.66 MiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (47928/47928), done.
>
> I would suggest that since they are "the instructions if you just want to
> follow the latest NumPy source, but you don’t need to do any development"
> that providing the https url as an alternative would be helpful. Perhaps
> something like:
>
>
> From the command line:
>
>    git clone git://github.com/numpy/numpy.git
>
> You should now have a copy of the code tree in the new `numpy` directory.
> If this doesn't work you can try the alternative read-only url:
>
>    git clone https://github.com/numpy/numpy.git

Done in the doc wiki, thanks for the suggestion.

Ralf