>> IIUC, this can be disabled by adding >> >> enable-http-clone=0
This seems to have started working: git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/test-project.git Cloning into 'test-project'... fatal: repository 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/test-project.git' not found s/cgit/git and it (still) works.
