I am trying to clone a repository as follows: git clone git://www.mellanox.co.il/~git/infiniband This makes a tiny bit of progress, and then hangs, without ever printing any output. Upon doing an strace to figure out what might be going on, I see this: <...much activity...> 28261 write(3, "0032want 8ba130df4b67fa40878ccf80d54615132d24bc68\n", 50) = 50 28261 write(3, "0032want 7df8ea909888d4856d3aff1c41192739d715a393\n", 50) = 50 28261 write(3, "0000", 4) = 4 28261 write(3, "0009done\n", 9) = 9 28261 read(3, "0008", 4) = 4 28261 read(3, "NAK\n", 4) = 4 28261 gettimeofday({1154968213, 166810}, NULL) = 0 28261 open("/home/bos/git/ofed_1_1/.git/objects/pack/tmp-ZbzARk", O_RDWR|O_CREAT |O_EXCL, 0600) = 4 28261 gettimeofday({1154968213, 167511}, NULL) = 0 28261 read(3, ... <...HANG> >From which I conclude that the server is telling the client to go away, which the client is for some reason ignoring. Not being a habitual git user, I don't know where to go from here. I'm using the latest git, cloned and built as of today. Help! <b - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html