Error cloning cogito.git (rsync: link_stat failed)

Hi I get the following when trying to clone cogito.git.

matlads@igloo:~/src$ git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/cogito.git/ cogito
defaulting to local storage area

receiving file list ... rsync: link_stat "/scm/git/cogito.git//objects/." (in pub) failed: No such file or directory (2)
done

sent 14 bytes  received 17 bytes  4.77 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1173)
matlads@igloo:~/src$ git --version
git version 0.99.7
matlads@igloo:~/src$ du -sh cogito
1.1M    cogito
matlads@igloo:~/src$ rm -fr cogito
matlads@igloo:~/src$ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/cogito.git/ cogito
defaulting to local storage area
Cannot get remote repository information.
Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
matlads@igloo:~/src$ git --version
git version 0.99.7
matlads@igloo:~/src$ 

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