getting source using git

[Steve]

---- John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote: 
> 
> On Nov 4, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > For some time now I've been wanting better investment tracking ability in GnuCash staring with stock lots and eventually having some way to track options. Inspired by the recent "Chapter 8 - investment accounts" thread, I decided to jump in but I seem to have tripped over the bottom rope.
> > 
> > Starting with the instructions at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building I decided to use git and followed the link to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git but:
> > 
> > $ pwd
> > /home/steve/Development/steve
> > 
> > $ git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git --verbose
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/steve/Development/steve/gnucash/.git/
> > github.com[0: 192.30.252.131]: errno=Connection refused
> > fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection refused)
> > 
> > I'm new to git but I found the --verbose flag which seems to indicate some kind of authentication is required.
> > After a bit of research I decided that I might need to create an account on github but I got the same results.
> > 
> > Clearly I'm missing something.
> > 
> > I'm running on up-to-date CentOS 6 VMware virtual machine on a Windows 7 box.
> 
> I think that url is only for the very few developers who have ssh keys registered for the project on Github.
> 
> Try https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

Much better. 
So the documentation needs updating/clarifying.

Thanks,
Steve