Problem cloning wine repository with git...

Scott Bambrough sbambrough at storm.ca
Wed Apr 5 08:28:35 CDT 2006


Mike McCormack wrote:
> 
> Scott Bambrough wrote:
> 
>> $ git clone http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git
>> defaulting to local storage area
> 
> Make sure to start the clone in an empty directory (ie. no existing 
> .git).  The clone might take quite a while, so be patient if it doesn't 
> go as fast as you expect.

I let it run overnight and it seems to have worked.  Took quite a while 
though.  I was expecting a download time similar to that of the kernel.

>> I'm using git version 1.0.4.
> 
> That's a bit old.  How about upgrading to GIT 1.2.5 that was released 
> last night?

Will do.  I installed a .deb I found, and had planned on downloading git 
and building if from source.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,

Scott



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