[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""works for me"""
 date="2014-11-10T17:05:26Z"
 content="""
<pre>
joey@kite:~/tmp>git clone http://downloads.kitenet.net/.git/ dlCloning into 'dl'...
Checking connectivity... done.
joey@kite:~/tmp>cd dl
joey@kite:~/tmp/dl>git annex get git-annex/linux/
get git-annex/linux/current/git-annex-standalone-amd64.tar.gz (merging origin/git-annex origin/synced/git-annex into git-annex...)
(Recording state in git...)
(from origin...) --2014-11-10 13:04:38--  http://downloads.kitenet.net/.git//annex/objects/3V/g7/SHA256E-s46132091--9712ed0168c2562d504d71cb3efbcac5434acc2f604cabadc42728758b7b3bc6.tar.gz/SHA256E-s46132091--9712ed0168c2562d504d71cb3efbcac5434acc2f604cabadc42728758b7b3bc6.tar.gz
Resolving downloads.kitenet.net (downloads.kitenet.net)... 107.170.31.195
Connecting to downloads.kitenet.net (downloads.kitenet.net)|107.170.31.195|:80... connected.
</pre>

AFAICS, you can't clone http://downloads.kitenet.net/ without the .git/,
so this makes me think you did something wrong.
"""]]
