The server does seem to support HTTP for pulling, however it is very slow. I have to use http from work because the firewall blocks the git:// protocol. Times on my prompt are DST (-0400).

[10:22:25] ~/test$ git clone http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git

Cloning into org-mode...

[10:35:43] ~/test$ cd org-mode/

[10:36:46] ~/test/org-mode$ git log -1

commit 74cca9f57ee3896dad85d3b354d1d9db286e799b

Author: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>

Date: Thu Aug 18 15:44:46 2011 +0200

org-indent: silence byte-compiler

[10:36:57] ~/test/org-mode$ cat .git/config

[core]

repositoryformatversion = 0

filemode = true

bare = false

logallrefupdates = true

ignorecase = true

[remote "origin"]

fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

url = http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git

[branch "master"]

remote = origin

merge = refs/heads/master

http:// does work for cloning and pulling from the main Repo, however there's nothing to indicate that anything is happening until the task is complete.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

Hi Peter,

peter.frings@agfa.com writes:

> I can’t seem to clone the git repository over http (from
> http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git). Is the server not supporting http, or is
> it just me?

The server isn't supporting the http protocol -- you can use
http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git instead, which lags behind by
just ~1 hour.

HTH,

--
Bastien