Hi, one of the authors here.

I knew about dvcs-ripper, but thought that implementing another variant might be fun and let me learn about git internals.

Does a simple `git clone` really work? I just tested it and it failed:

``` $> git clone http://x.domain.tld/ fatal: repository 'http://x.domain.tld/' not found

$> git clone http://x.domain.tld/.git/ fatal: repository 'http://x.domain.tld/.git/' not found ```

And yes, the post's background is a CTF challenge that blocked a simple `git clone`.