Re: git clone

[Reece Dunn <msclrhd googlemail com>]

On 22 October 2012 10:15, Khoem Sokhem <sokhem open org kh> wrote:
> Hello All Members,
>
> I try to clone modules from git.gnome with the command line: git clone
> ssh://khem git gnome org/Modulename
>
> but I got the error message said that
> "localization@linux-n9nb:~/Documents/loc/GNOME> git clone
> ssh://khem git gnome org/git/gnome-3-6
> Initialized empty Git repository in
> /home/localization/Documents/loc/GNOME/gnome-3-6/.git/
> fatal: '/git/gnome-3-6' does not appear to be a git repository
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> localization@linux-n9nb:~/Documents/loc/GNOME>"
>
> I am not sure what cause the error, Could you please help on this?

If you look at http://git.gnome.org/browse/ you will find that
gnome-3.6 does not exist, hence the error you are getting. The project
'gnome' also does not exist -- rather, gnome is the combination of all
the sub-components listed on git.gnome.org.

Most of the components have gnome-VERSION branches within them --
maybe this is what you are trying.

For example, to get the gnome-3.6 version of gnome-games, you need to do:

    $ git clone ssh://khem git gnome org/git/gnome-games
    $ cd gnome-games
    $ git checkout gnome-3.6

The git clone command gets all the code for the gnome-games project,
while the git checkout command switches to the gnome-3.6 development
line.

HTH,
- Reece