Aha. I had just jumped to the chase.

But is there a reason we don't just point everyone (including newcomers) to git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git ? That's what I always use myself, and it seems simpler to do so.

Richard

On Jul 17, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering@gmail.com> wrote:

Did you do the line above as well?

```
git config --global url."git://github.com/ghc/packages-".insteadOf
git://github.com/ghc/packages/
```

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Richard Eisenberg <rae@cs.brynmawr.edu> wrote:
Hi devs,

The Newcomers page (https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers) recommends cloning GHC with

git clone --recursive git://github.com/ghc/ghc

I believe my students did this with success several weeks ago. But trying it again today leads to trouble with some submodules, e.g.:

Cloning into '/Users/rae/ltemp/ghc-test/libraries/Cabal'...
fatal: remote error:
 ghc/packages/Cabal is not a valid repository name
 Email support@github.com for help
fatal: clone of 'git://github.com/ghc/packages/Cabal.git' into submodule path '/Users/rae/ltemp/ghc-test/libraries/Cabal' failed


Is there something wrong in the internets? Or should we update the Newcomers page?

Thanks,
Richard
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