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
Solution
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)
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