I personally consider this to be most reasonable. But maybe I oversee something…<br><br>--<br>Best, Artem<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">вт, 17 июля 2018 г. в 22:59, Richard Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:rae@cs.brynmawr.edu">rae@cs.brynmawr.edu</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Aha. I had just jumped to the chase.<div><br></div><div>But is there a reason we don't just point everyone (including newcomers) to <a>git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git</a> ? That's what I always use myself, and it seems simpler to do so.</div><div><br></div><div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div>Richard</div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 17, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Matthew Pickering <<a href="mailto:matthewtpickering@gmail.com" target="_blank">matthewtpickering@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-4111566773737507286Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Did you do the line above as well?<br><br>```<br>git config --global url."<a>git://github.com/ghc/packages-</a>".insteadOf<br><a>git://github.com/ghc/packages/</a><br>```<br><br>On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Richard Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:rae@cs.brynmawr.edu" target="_blank">rae@cs.brynmawr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi devs,<br><br>The Newcomers page (<a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers" target="_blank">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers</a>) recommends cloning GHC with<br><br><blockquote type="cite">git clone --recursive git://<a href="http://github.com/ghc/ghc" target="_blank">github.com/ghc/ghc</a><br></blockquote><br>I believe my students did this with success several weeks ago. But trying it again today leads to trouble with some submodules, e.g.:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Cloning into '/Users/rae/ltemp/ghc-test/libraries/Cabal'...<br>fatal: remote error:<br>  ghc/packages/Cabal is not a valid repository name<br>  Email <a href="mailto:support@github.com" target="_blank">support@github.com</a> for help<br>fatal: clone of 'git://<a href="http://github.com/ghc/packages/Cabal.git" target="_blank">github.com/ghc/packages/Cabal.git</a>' into submodule path '/Users/rae/ltemp/ghc-test/libraries/Cabal' failed<br><br></blockquote><br>Is there something wrong in the internets? Or should we update the Newcomers page?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Richard<br>_______________________________________________<br>ghc-devs mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs" target="_blank">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs</a><br></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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