I can't "git" it

[Russell Shaw]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 8/2/06, Rob Currey <robc at graphon.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to obtain the R7.1 release via "git" ...
> 
> 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.

At http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/xorg/doc/xorg/docs, git doesn't work:

   git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/doc/xorg/docs

     fatal: unexpected EOF
     fetch-pack from 'git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/doc/xorg/docs' failed.