Getting files to Build Gnome-Shell

[Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com>]

Hi

I am trying to follow the instructions at 
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#building.  So far, I have been able to 
get the jhbuild environment (hope that is what it is ...).

When I run: jhbuild build, It starts to clone git.gnome.org starting 
with glib but it never passes that.  I get an EOF error and the process 
repeats.  Here is an example:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
jhbuild build
*** Checking out glib *** [1/33]
git clone git://git.gnome.org/glib
Cloning into glib...
remote: Counting objects: 87567, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14913/14913), done.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly05 MiB | 7 KiB/s
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed
*** Error during phase checkout of glib: ########## Error running git 
clone git://git.gnome.org/glib *** [1/33]

  [1] Rerun phase checkout
  [2] Ignore error and continue to configure
  [3] Give up on module
  [4] Start shell
  [5] Reload configuration
  [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

I suspect a network problem ... something I experience consistently with 
my internet providers.  I'm wondering if there is another way to get the 
needed files for building Gnome-shell ... something like a bz2 or tar 
archive of the current snapshot.  It would be easier using wget to pull 
one archive since it can resume after a network reset.

It will gladden my heart to join the Gnome-shell testers and report bugs 
as necessary.

Regards
Oku, C