Re: Problem cloning the Octave Repo.

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 27 July 2012 09:57, vivek dogra <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to clone the Octave repo by running the following command.
>
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> hg clone http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> which gives me following thing
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> destination directory: octave
> requesting all changes
> adding changesets
> adding manifests
> adding file changes
> added 15031 changesets with 96796 changes to 9380 files (+2 heads)
> updating to branch default
> cloning subrepo gnulib from git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You probably have trouble with the git:// url because you're behind
some needlessly restrictive firewall that blocks the git network port.

Try adding this to your ~/.hgrc

    [subpaths]
    git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib =  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git

I've updated the webpage with these instructions:

    http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/get-involved.html

HTH,
- Jordi G. H.