Git clone error on Jenkins/Hudson on Windows | Colin's Devlog

Git clone error on Jenkins/Hudson on Windows | Colin's Devlog

Recently I set up a new instance of Jenkins (formerly Hudson) running on my Windows 7 desktop computer. I tried to set up a job that would pull from a GitHub repository and do a build but (like every other time I've tried this) was foiled by the job simply hanging at the step where it tries to clone or fetch from GitHub.