git behind proxy: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout

Question

When trying to clone ANY repository via https from github, we get:

git clone https://github.com/rails/rails.git
Cloning into rails...
remote HEAD refers to nonex         


        

Answer 1

Another simple solution would be:

regressing libcurl3 from 7.21.0 to 7.19.5.

Download it from here:

amd64: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30289951/libcurl3-gnutls_7.19.5-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb

i386: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30287711/libcurl3-gnutls_7.19.5-1ubuntu2_i386.deb