aha, thats ignoring IPFire 3 stuff is the key here..Ignore the IPFire 3 stuff. After that, you will need to do what is described in the build howto:
git clone ssh://<user>@git.ipfire.org/pub/git/ipfire-3.x.git # Could also be checked out via the git protocol cd ipfire-3.x/ git remote add <user> ssh://<user>@git.ipfire.org/pub/git/people/<user>/ipfire-3.x.gitthanks,