On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net>wrote:
> We're now golden. When I ran git describe I was told no repository > exists. So I ran git init and created an empty repository and then ran > the git clone command and this time aI have an installed version of 7.8.02 > and am told I'm up to date. Apparently running a git clone operation on > slackware 13.0 without having an existing repository for git to populate > makes git a very unhappy camper. > > You're just trying to clone the orgmode repo? You shouldn't need to do 'git init.' That's used when you want to create a local git repo from your own, pre-existing files. You're just trying to pull from a remote repository. ,--- | $ git clone git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git `--- Should work on it's own from any directory and will create a new directory populated with the orgmode git tree. Git should work, regardless of the distro. Can you try again? If you'e like, try cd-ing to a directory where you want this to live and executing: ,--- | $ git clone git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git org.git `--- See what happens. If you get errors, post the exact output to the list and others should be able to help. Thanks! John > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> > <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html> > > >
