Cloning this repository:

git clone git://gitorious.org/maemo-pkg/libcompress-zlib-perl.git libcompress-zlib-perl
cd libcompress-zlib-perl

Add this repository as a remote to an existing local repository:

git remote add libcompress-zlib-perl git://gitorious.org/maemo-pkg/libcompress-zlib-perl.git
git fetch libcompress-zlib-perl
git checkout -b my-local-tracking-branch libcompress-zlib-perl/master_or_other_branch