Cannot clone git repo from ubuntu server with tortoisegit
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I'm facing some problems while `git clone` a repo from my ubuntu server running **gitolite**.

first, I got a public key from the developer who wants to clone the repository from the server. it was a rsa key created with **putty**. so I did the following to parse it from the putty-style to openssh format with:

`ssh-keygen -i -f /tmp/ssh2/YourName.pub > /tmp/openssh/YourName.pub` (taken from http://gitolite.googlecode.com/git/doc/ssh-troubleshooting.mkd?r=d3a663d03f1027f909732d55d0519bdd84edb62c)

and uploaded the public key along with a new entry for the repo and the new user in the config file to gitolite-admin repo.

so far, so good.


the developer is using **tortoisegit** along with **putty** to connect to the server, which is running **git** on a *non-standard* port and he keeps on getting the same error over and over again:

    Cloning into 'D:\path\to\dirctory'...
    error: Recv failure: Connection was reset while accessing http://sub.domain.com/info/refs
    fatal: HTTP request failed
    
    git did not exit cleanly (exit code 128)

could anyone give me some advice about this issue?
    

