git behind proxy: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout

Question

When trying to clone ANY repository via https from github, we get:

git clone https://github.com/rails/rails.git
Cloning into rails...
remote HEAD refers to nonex         


        

Answer 1

the packages noted above can be found here:

• http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/precise/amd64/libp11-kit0/download
• http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/precise/amd64/libgnutls26/download
• http://packages.ubuntu.com/en/precise/amd64/libcurl3-gnutls/download

I used these versions and was able to use git behind a proxy without issue:

$ sudo dpkg -i libp11-kit0_0.10-1_amd64.deb libgnutls26_2.12.14-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb libcurl3-gnutls_7.22.0-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb