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Following ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/install/#installing-development-version , I was unable to download latests version of github repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/django/django.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/admin/django/django/.git/
Cannot get remote repository information.
Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?

This is a known error from github for old git versions (see ​https://github.com/blog/809-git-dumb-http-transport-to-be-turned-off-in-90-days).

Despite updating git was not an option on my server, I was able to download django code using ​git:// instead of ​https:// :

$ git --version 
git version 1.5.2.5
$ git clone git://github.com/django/django.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/admin/django/django/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 138773, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (35866/35866), done.
Indexing 138773 objects...
remote: Total 138773 (delta 104852), reused 130823 (delta 98002)
 100% (138773/138773) done
Resolving 104852 deltas...
 100% (104852/104852) done
Checking 4640 files out...
 100% (4640/4640) done

For next developers, can you please change documentation accordingly ?

[Tim Graham]

In [17139]:

Fixed #17220 - Documented git clone command for git < 1.6.6; thanks krzysiumed for the patch.