BUILD stuck , cannot clone repository

I cloned this repository by doing a fork from the nodejs project from gitlab examples : https://gitlab.com/gitlab-examples/nodejs
now whenever the CI build kicks in it gets stuck at this point, it can't clone the repository, what am I missing ??

gitlab-ci-multi-runner 1.2.0 (3a4fcd4)
Using Docker executor with image node:4.2.2 ...
Pulling docker image node:4.2.2 ...
Running on runner-aeea8dcc-project-40-concurrent-0 via 754681-tools.mycia.local...
Cloning repository...
Cloning into '/builds/jamaya/nodetest1'...
fatal: http://gitlab-ci-token:xxxxxx@gitlab.mycia.com/jamaya/nodetest1.git/info/refs not valid: is this a git repository?  

this is the directory structure of the repository

And the info directory only has one file but no refs file

git version from server is 1.9.1 this is the info from gitlab: