Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

The .travis.yml file in areaDetector contains these lines:

 

   - pip install git+git://github.com/drdoctr/[email protected]

   - pip install git+git://github.com/michaeljones/[email protected]

   - pip install git+git://github.com/return42/linuxdoc.git

 

This was working OK, but recently the travis builds have been failing with this error:

 

$ pip install git+git://github.com/drdoctr/[email protected]

Collecting git+git://github.com/drdoctr/[email protected]

  Cloning git://github.com/drdoctr/doctr.git (to revision 1.7.4) to /tmp/pip-req-build-7r_gfskr

  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none -q git://github.com/drdoctr/doctr.git /tmp/pip-req-build-7r_gfskr

  fatal: unable to connect to github.com:

  github.com[0: 140.82.113.3]: errno=Connection timed out

 

I don’t understand what the syntax “git+git://github.com/drdoctr/[email protected]” means.  I have used https://github.com for https access and git at github.com for ssh access, but I have not seen git://github.com outside of this travis script. Can someone explain? 

 

I found that if I replace git:// with https:// it works.

 

   - pip install git+https://github.com/drdoctr/[email protected]

   - pip install git+https://github.com/michaeljones/[email protected]

   - pip install git+https://github.com/return42/linuxdoc.git

 

What the difference between git:// and https:// is, and is OK to make this change?

 

Thanks,

Mark