Unable to Connect to GitHub.com For Cloning

Question

I am trying to clone the angular-phonecat git repository, but I am getting the following message when I enter the command in my Git Bash:

$ git clone git://g         


        

Answer 1

You can make git replace the protocol for you

git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://

See more at SO Bower install using only https?

Answer 2

Open port 9418 on your firewall - it's a custom port that Git uses to communicate on and it's often not open on a corporate or private firewall.

Answer 3

You are probably behind a firewall. Try cloning via https – that has a higher chance of not being blocked:

git clone https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git

Answer 4

I had the same error because I was using proxy. As the answer is given but in case you are using proxy then please set your proxy first using these commands:

git config --global http.proxy http://proxy_username:proxy_password@proxy_ip:port
git config --global https.proxy https://proxy_username:proxy_password@proxy_ip:port

Answer 5

You can try to clone using the HTTPS protocol. Terminal command:

git clone https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit.git