I just created a github account and a repository therein, but when trying to create a local working copy using the recommende url via
git clone https://githu
Try to connect to repositroy with url: http://github.com/<user>/<project>.git (http except https)
http://github.com/<user>/<project>.git
In your case you should clone like this:
git clone http://github.com/<user>/<project>.git