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

[Thomas Berezansky]

I have fixed the page. Thanks for letting us know!

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Scott Prater <sprater at gmail.com>:

> 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
>