cloning gnulib fails

[Daniel J Sebald]

Hello gnulib maintainers,

It has come to the attention of Octave users that cloning the gnulib 
repository fails for some users, possibly because of firewall issues. 
The command suggested here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/

results in a connection reset on the server side of things:

[gnulib]$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git
Cloning into gnulib...
fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer

Someone figured out that the following address works without reset:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git

(See http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/get-involved.html)  Please 
consider resolving firewall access to the server (if that is possible) 
or providing a working repository address on the gnulib webpage.  If the 
latter, we will change the Octave sub-repository address accordingly.

Thank you,

Dan