I can't "git" it

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> > I'm trying to obtain the R7.1 release via "git" ...

See the thread at
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-July/016910.html 

And I see the script is available via
 http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide 

> For the released versions, you can just use the tarballs unless you
> have a really compelling reason to pull the source directly.
> 
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.1/src/
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.0/src/
> 
> I included the links for both releases because you will only find
> tarballs for the packages that changed between 7.0 and 7.1 and the 7.1
> directories. This is documented somewhere, but I don't remember right
> now.

Also see http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/