attempting to clone the git repo

From: Andrew Kilroy <lemonkandy@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 8, 2007, 16:49 UTC
Message-ID: <2fb03ecb0703080849m41ac8158y4895f2bc811934f5@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I'm attempting to clone the git repository using git-1.5.0.3 in my workplace. Port 9418's blocked by the firewall, so I'm trying via http:

    $ git clone http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/akilroy/workspace/git/.git/
    Cannot get remote repository information.
    Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?

Is there a problem at the server? I've tried this before using an old version of git, and that worked (1.4.4.4 I think).

Thanks, Andy