getting source using git

[Geert Janssens]

On Monday 04 November 2013 16:40:28 Steve wrote:
> ---- 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.
> 
Done.

Geert