Ted's URL fetches you a mirrored repository from GitHub.com instead, which is absolutely fine to use as an alternate. There might have been an infrastructure issue when you were attempting to access the original Apache git repository.
In trying the regular Apache git repository now, it appears to work fine, so we do not need to update the wiki for this. On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:44 AM Ajoy Bhatia <ajoy.bha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Ted! That worked. > > Then, maybe the "Checking out the source" section on > https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/GitAndHadoop needs to be updated. I would > do > that but I don't have access. > > Thanks... > - Ajoy > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Please use g...@github.com:apache/hadoop.git > > > > Cheers > > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Ajoy Bhatia <ajoy.bha...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am a newbie here and want to contribute to the Hadoop project. Trying > > to > > > set up my Hadoop development environment for the first time, but I'm > not > > > able to connect to git.apache.org to clone the repo, although ping > does > > > not > > > have any problem connecting. Here is what I get when I run "git clone": > > > > > > *%>* git clone git://git.apache.org/hadoop.git > > > Cloning into 'hadoop-07-16'... > > > fatal: unable to connect to git.apache.org: > > > git.apache.org[0: 54.84.58.65]: errno=Operation timed out > > > > > > Output from ping: > > > > > > *%>* ping -t 4 54.84.58.65 > > > PING 54.84.58.65 (54.84.58.65): 56 data bytes > > > 64 bytes from 54.84.58.65: icmp_seq=0 ttl=43 time=163.538 ms > > > 64 bytes from 54.84.58.65: icmp_seq=1 ttl=43 time=150.952 ms > > > 64 bytes from 54.84.58.65: icmp_seq=2 ttl=43 time=148.183 ms > > > 64 bytes from 54.84.58.65: icmp_seq=3 ttl=43 time=133.022 ms > > > > > > --- 54.84.58.65 ping statistics --- > > > 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss > > > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 133.022/148.924/163.538/10.852 ms > > > > > > Any help is much appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks... > > > - Ajoy > > > > > >
