The other page https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources suggests: git clone --recursive git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git This always works to me. -- Best wishes, Artem вт, 17 июля 2018 г. в 21:14, Matthew Pickering

:

Did you do the line above as well?

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

...

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

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Richard Eisenberg wrote: 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?

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I personally consider this to be most reasonable. But maybe I oversee something… -- Best, Artem вт, 17 июля 2018 г. в 22:59, Richard Eisenberg :

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 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 _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

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How clever of someone to note that. I stand down. Thanks!

On Jul 17, 2018, at 5:08 PM, Matthew Pickering wrote:

It was changed when a large number of people were cloning the git.haskell.org repo after being posted on reddit and it was causing load issues.

There is a comment to this effect in the newcomers page source.

{{{#!comment -- Note: when this page got mentioned on reddit, git.haskell.org couldn't handle the load, so we now tell newcomers to clone from github, even though it requires one more initial step. git clone --recursive git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git }}}

Matt

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:04 PM, Artem Pelenitsyn wrote:

...

I personally consider this to be most reasonable. But maybe I oversee something…

-- Best, Artem вт, 17 июля 2018 г. в 22:59, Richard Eisenberg :

...

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 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 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 _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

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