When I execute git clone --depth=2 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
as is done when running the bootstrap script for the first time, the git process hangs. Several people have reported this problem when building Octave from a Mercurial checkout, which does not start out with a gnulib subdirectory but gets all the gnulib sources from git.sv.gnu.org. Does anyone else see this problem? What could be causing it? I have git 1.7.2.3. jwe
