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thenewbie
thenewbie

Reputation: 805

Git clone connection time out

I know this looks like a stupid question but how to download this url? using git? svn checkout http://android-playground.googlecode.com/svn/ android-playground-read-only?

I am trying to download some code of swipey tabs and make it as my reference so I follow some instructions on the net but i cant download it.. it says connection timeout. here is my error on my terminal

Cloning into 'SwipeyTabsSample'...
fatal: unable to connect to android-playground.googlecode.com:
android-playground.googlecode.com[0: 173.194.72.82]: errno=Connection timed out
android-playground.googlecode.com[1: 2404:6800:4008:c01::52]: errno=Network is unreachable

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3239

Answers (1)

eckes
eckes

Reputation: 67197

I'm wondering why nobody mentions git svn: you can do it using Git: there's git svn contained in the standard Git distribution. This takes an SVN repo and clones it into a Git repo:

git svn clone http://android-playground.googlecode.com/svn/android-playground-read-only

Once cloning is done, you could work on the repo with Git.

Since it's read-only, you'll never going to git svn dcommit (push changes back to repo). Check the man page of git svn in order to know the further parameters and commands available (e.g. not cloning the full history but only the last revision and so on).

git svn has (AFAIK) the problem that it doesn't clone the tags and branches of the SVN repo correctly. In order to achieve this, check svn2git.

Epilogue:
I think you're just starting with revision control and therefore thought that Git and SVN would be the same. If I would start today, I'd pick one RCS that I'm going to use in future. Coming from SVN, I didn't regret switching over to Git a single day.

Upvotes: 3

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