Git fatal: the remote end hung up when cloning JSONKit.git

Question

What I Want

I want to clone the JSONKit repo from Github.

The Problem

  % git clone git://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit.git                                                                                                                            
    Cloning into JSONKit...
    fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

What I've Tried

• Cloning another read only repo

  git clone git://github.com/kgn/KGNoise.git  
  

For example, works perfectly.

Other Details

My git version is 1.7.5.4

Answer 1

Try with the https github address:

git clone https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit.git

If the case is correct, the git address should work, unless it failed on a side effect of (5-6 October):

A small percentage of git repositories are unavailable due to a heavily loaded fileserver pair.

The OP John Gallagher confirms it was a side-effect of that incident, so, as a general rule, when a GitHub repos host provider displays a:

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

It is probably caused by an incident in their infrastructure.
(If not, then and only then the repo itself might have an issue)