strange behaviour of git

Question

i have strange behaviour of git - push is working, but clone is not :(

alec$ git clone git://host/repo.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/alec/Temp/repo/.git/
host[0: x.x.x.x]: errno=Connection refused
fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection refused)

whats wrong?

Answer 1

Push is probably working over SSH (port 22) but clone works over the git port (port 9418). You (or your network admin) will have to open this port if you want to be able to clone repositories.

Answer 2

Try using the Github or Bitbucket (Sourcetree) apps. They usually have less errors, and do most of everything that the command line does. I use bitbucket because their GUI git app is complex and provides many options.

Bitbucket http://bitbucket.org GitHub http://github.com