[OPEN-ILS-DEV] incorrect remote URL in Evergreen git documentation?

[Scott Prater]

A coreection to my correction:  the correct URL should be
"git://git.evergreen-ils.org/working/Evergreen.git"  (a forward slash,
not a colon, between "org" and "working"), for doing anonymous
(non-SSH) pulls.

-- Scott

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Scott Prater <sprater at gmail.com> wrote:
> I ran into a problem this morning, when setting up git to work with
> the Evergreen "working" repo.
>
> Following the instructions on the wiki page
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:git in the section
> "Quick Start for Evergreen contributors", I added the remote working
> repo using this command:
>
>   git remote add working git://git.evergreen-ils.org:working/Evergreen.git
>
> When I then ran "git fetch --all", I received the following error:
>
> $ git fetch --all
> Fetching origin
> Fetching working
> fatal: Unable to look up git.evergreen-ils.org (port working)
> (Servname not supported for ai_socktype)
> error: Could not fetch working
>
> A little bit of Googling indicated that the format of the URL passed
> to "git remote add" was incorrect;  "working" was being interpreted as
> the port portion of the URL.  The correct format is the SSH format:
>
> git at git.evergreen-ils.org:working/Evergreen.git
>
> So I ran the following:
>
> git remote rm working
> git remote add working git at git.evergreen-ils.org:working/Evergreen.git
> git fetch --all
>
> ... and everything was happy.
>
> I'm willing to update the documentation, if a more experienced git
> user can confirm that the URL should indeed be corrected.
>
> thanks,
>
> -- Scott