I think you are having issues because of slow network. I would say you checkout the source code from apache svn
ex: svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-2.4 you can checkout from the branch you want to work on. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Avinash Kujur <avin...@gmail.com> wrote: > after downloading 150 mb it gave this error. > error: RPC failed; result=18, HTTP code = 20047 MiB | 24 KiB/s > did not get what it means. > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> try this git clone https://github.com/apache/hadoop-common.git hadoop >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Avinash Kujur <avin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> i am getting thia error while cloning the hadoop trunk code from >>> git.apache.org using terminal. >>> error is: >>> [cloudera@localhost ~]$ git clone >>> git://git.apache.org/hadoop-common.githadoop >>> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/cloudera/hadoop/.git/ >>> fatal: Unable to look up git.apache.org (port 9418) (Name or service >>> not known) >>> >>> >>> help me out. >>> >>> thanks in advance. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nitin Pawar >> > > -- Nitin Pawar