On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@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


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