Very Stupid Question: But how to download source from GitHub?

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Published on 2010-05-01T19:06:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 19:17 UTC
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I see something strange like:

http://github.com/zoul/Finch.git

Now I'm not that CVS / SVN / etc. dude. When I open that in the browser it tells me that I did something wrong. So I bet I need some hacker-style tool? Some client?

(i mean... why not just provide a zip? isn't the world complex enough?)

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