git clone connection refused

Question

I'm pretty new and trying to set up an environment for my Econotag. Using this guide https://github.com/malvira/libmc1322x/wiki/libmc1322x I am getting an error message .

user@instant-contiki:~$ git clone git://git.devl.org/git/malvira/libmc1322x.git
Cloning into 'libmc1322x'...
fatal: unable to connect to git.devl.org:
git.devl.org[0: 209.208.78.21]: errno=Connection refused

How to get around this

Answer 1

That means that you can't connect to the server over the native git protocol. Note that git native protocol uses ports 9418 TCP and UDP, those might be blocked by some firewall on the way. Or the server itself might be refusing connections. To check for such problems, try cloning a small repository from elsewhere, like git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git (if you love emacs, but hate it's size, it might be for you ;-)

Check that the URL you are giving is right (i.e., git:// and not e.g. http:// or something else). Maybe you need to set up an SSH key, an account, or something else first.