Using Github

[A Former User]

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[Boken Lin]

@Rudy-Trujillo git is compile for the Omega. You can install git by running:

opkg update
opkg install git

[A Former User]

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[Kit Bishop]

@Rudy-Trujillo I have tried this and have tried this too and got a bit further.

As well as installing git, you need to install git-http:

• opkg install git-http

Having done this, I get past the error you got (before doing so I got the same Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

However, I now get these messages that indicate a username and password are required and I don't know what they are:

• root@Omega-0A97:~/gittest# git clone http://github.com/OnionT/gpio-test
  Cloning into 'gpio-test'...
  warning: templates not found /usr/share/git-core/templates
  Username for 'https://github.com':
  Password for 'https://github.com':
  remote: Repository not found.
  fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/OnionT/gpio-test/'
  root@Omega-0A97:~/gittest#

After a bit of research (I am not an expert at GIT) I found that for anonymous clone one should use the git: protocol rather than https: protocol.

However this still gives some problems as evidenced by:

• root@Omega-0A97:~/gittest# git clone git://github.com/OnionT/gpio-test
  Cloning into 'gpio-test'...
  warning: templates not found /usr/share/git-core/templates
  fatal: remote error:
  Repository not found.
  root@Omega-0A97:~/gittest#

So while a bit further on, still not there - probably need some input from the Omega people or some one more familiar with GIT than I am

[A Former User]

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[A Former User]

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[Boken Lin]

@Rudy-Trujillo It should be OnionIoT instead of OnionT

[A Former User]

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[Kit Bishop]

@Rudy-Trujillo I think the username and password would be for a user registered on the main repository to ensure that you have authority to recommit any changes you made.
What I think we are looking for is a method to get an anonymous copy of whats in the repository to look at/play with without needing the ability (or risk) of committing back changes.
All I have done so far in accessing stuff from the Onion GIT Hub is to use my browser (on Windows or Linux system) to access directly via https://github.com/OnionIoT to download the relevant .zip file.

I would finally ask what precisely you need from the GIT Hub - most of the stuff there is primarily source code (e.g. as in gpio-test you reference) that can only really be cross compiled on a Linux system and is of no real use directly on the Omega.

[A Former User]

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[Kit Bishop]

@Rudy-Trujillo @Boken-Lin Duh A silly typo - thanks for putting us right @Boken-Lin
Working for me now too

[mark titley]

This is a good website for learning GIT