windows git bash wont clone directory

Question

I am having trouble cloning a git repo using git bash.

Basically im trying to do the following from the angular js tutorial angular js tutorial

#Clone the angular-phonecat repository located at Github by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git

However when I do it it seems to hang and fail on the cloning into angular-phonecar dir. See screenshot. The url is avtive and I can open it when I load it into my browser? So im thinking I may have the ports blocked?... not sure..

Any help would be much appreciated. Error says http request failed

Answer 1

It sounds like either GitHub was down, or maybe you are behind a firewall that is blocking access to this. Have you tried connecting to GitHub using curl?

curl -I https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat.git

Also, after the clone operation fails, enter this in the command line:

echo $?

That is the exit code of the last command. You might try googling "git clone fails with exit code X".