Re: can't checkout ghc 8.6 branch correctly -- something wrong with transformers mirror repo?

26 Jul 2019

      git clone --recursive git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git ghc-8.6.5-series -b
ghc-8.6
--- not using gitlab to clone seems to be the culprit ..

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:18 PM Carter Schonwald 
wrote:
...
Hey everyone, whats wrong with the 8.6 branch?
when i do a fresh clone, i wind up with this error :
$
git submodule update  --init --recursive
error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object
def8c55d0c47c1c40de985d83f052f3659b40cfd
Fetched in submodule path 'libraries/transformers', but it did not contain
def8c55d0c47c1c40de985d83f052f3659b40cfd. Direct fetching of that commit
failed.
14:17:43 ~/D/r/ghc-8.6.5-series (ghc-8.6|✚6) $