I can't "git" it

[Nicholas Miell]

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:07:05 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:

> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> On 8/2/06, Rob Currey <robc at graphon.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm trying to obtain the R7.1 release via "git" ...
>> 
>> For the released versions, you can just use the tarballs unless you
>> have a really compelling reason to pull the source directly.
>> 
>> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.1/src/
>> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.0/src/
>> 
>> I included the links for both releases because you will only find
>> tarballs for the packages that changed between 7.0 and 7.1 and the 7.1
>> directories. This is documented somewhere, but I don't remember right
>> now.
> 
> At http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/xorg/doc/xorg/docs, git doesn't work:
> 
>    git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/doc/xorg/docs
> 
>      fatal: unexpected EOF
>      fetch-pack from 'git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/doc/xorg/docs' failed.

git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/doc/xorg-docs

Yes, the mapping between what gitweb says and the actually directory
layout is non-obvious.