ssh - git clone hangs forever on github

Question

When I follow point 5 (Test everything out) in the github guide, the ssh command also hangs forever. According to the guide, I should be presented with a message that "Github does not provide shell access". Below is my output from ssh -vT git@github.com

debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
Authenticated to github.com ([207.97.227.239]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LC_MESSAGES = en_US.UTF-8
debug1: Sending env LC_COLLATE = en_US.UTF-8
debug1: Sending env LANG = da_DK.UTF-8
debug1: Sending env LC_CTYPE = en_US.UTF-8

Answer 1

GitHub offers a few different ways to connect to the remote repo. I am behind an onerous firewall. All methods also hang except using http (not https).

For example, the JavaHamcrest project offers (anonymously):

• https://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest.git
• git@github.com:hamcrest/JavaHamcrest.git
• git://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest.git

You may also try:

• http://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest.git

Finally, prefix your UNIX command with GIT_TRACE=1 and GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1, and use Git option --verbose for maximum debug output.

Example: env GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone --verbose http://github.com/hamcrest/JavaHamcrest.git