Hi Eric,

Just to emphasize one of Magnus's points: check and make sure that your git remote is "git@gitlab.haskell.org:yourname/ghc". If it starts with "https://" then you might need PATs, and you probably don't want that.

(https:// urls probably worked in more cases in the past. Now that all projects are internal by default, I suspect they require extra hoops.)

-Bryan

On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 13:47, Magnus Viernickel via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> wrote:
Hi Eric,

Why do you need an access token to check out and fetch GHC? I don't
think you regularly do; best you clone GHC via SSH, but since your fork
is public anyway, you should at least be able to fetch your fork without
any access tokens.

That being said, I will assume that the reason why you don't get an
access token is that an XHR request failed due to Anubis, our spam
protection. Usually that will resolve itself after doing a hard refresh
of the page.

If your issues persist, please share your user name and address me
directly at this mail address so I can help you.

Best

Magnus

On 8/3/26 12:10, Eric via ghc-devs wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In order to fetch and checkout a branch of my fork of GHC, I am trying
> to create a personal access token which I would use as a password at
> the command line. However, when I try to add a new token, the page
> hangs displaying a the "please wait" circle graphic. Does anyone know
> what might be wrong?
>
> Regards,
> Eric
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