Git on Windows: fatal: Could not read from remote repository

Question

I'm trying to use Git on Windows by using this command on prompt

git ls-remote --tags --heads git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git

And I'm receiving this error:

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

I was following this tutorial on Web and I'm wondering what is happening (firewall or anything else).

I'm noob with git so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

my corporate firewall has blocked the git protocol. I change git to use https protocol, so it works.

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