Error cloning cogito.git (rsync: link_stat failed)

Hi I get the following when trying to clone cogito.git.

matlads@igloo:~/src$ git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/cogito.git/ cogito defaulting to local storage area

receiving file list ... rsync: link_stat "/scm/git/cogito.git//objects/." (in pub) failed: No such file or directory (2) done

sent 14 bytes received 17 bytes 4.77 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1173) matlads@igloo:~/src$ git --version git version 0.99.7 matlads@igloo:~/src$ du -sh cogito 1.1M cogito matlads@igloo:~/src$ rm -fr cogito matlads@igloo:~/src$ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/cogito.git/ cogito defaulting to local storage area Cannot get remote repository information. Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there? matlads@igloo:~/src$ git --version git version 0.99.7 matlads@igloo:~/src$