Ok. Finally I got the clone completed.

Correct command used:
$ git clone git://git.gitorious.org/maliit/maliit-plugins.git
Cloning into 'maliit-plugins'...
remote: Counting objects: 17606, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5309/5309), done.
remote: Total 17606 (delta 14078), reused 15125 (delta 12188)
Receiving objects: 100% (17606/17606), 3.58 MiB | 72 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (14078/14078), done.


I will try to figure out the rest and upload the keyboard files