[dottedmag@vertex:~/src/x/xserver] (git)-[for-keithp]-% git remote add ajax git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~ajax/xserver
[dottedmag@vertex:~/src/x/xserver] (git)-[for-keithp]-% git fetch ajax                                                 
remote: Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
error: waitpid (async) failed
fatal: error in sideband demultiplexer
[dottedmag@vertex:~/src/x/xserver]128 (git)-[for-keithp]-% 


or

[dottedmag@vertex:~]% ssh burger
git clone git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~ajax/xserver
[mag@burger:~]% git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~ajax/xserver
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mag/xserver/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 12311, done.
remote: error: unable to find 1ed281478a42faa2bf3041bad3f43d092002ff57
remote: fatal: unable to get type of object 1ed281478a42faa2bf3041bad3f43d092002ff57
remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed
[mag@burger:~]128%