<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Aha. I had just jumped to the chase.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But is there a reason we don't just point everyone (including newcomers) to <a href="git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git" class="">git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git</a> ? That's what I always use myself, and it seems simpler to do so.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Richard<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 17, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Matthew Pickering <<a href="mailto:matthewtpickering@gmail.com" class="">matthewtpickering@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Did you do the line above as well?<br class=""><br class="">```<br class="">git config --global url."<a href="git://github.com/ghc/packages-" class="">git://github.com/ghc/packages-</a>".insteadOf<br class=""><a href="git://github.com/ghc/packages/" class="">git://github.com/ghc/packages/</a><br class="">```<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Richard Eisenberg <rae@cs.brynmawr.edu> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi devs,<br class=""><br class="">The Newcomers page (https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Newcomers) recommends cloning GHC with<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">git clone --recursive git://github.com/ghc/ghc<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">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 class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Cloning into '/Users/rae/ltemp/ghc-test/libraries/Cabal'...<br class="">fatal: remote error:<br class=""> ghc/packages/Cabal is not a valid repository name<br class=""> Email support@github.com for help<br class="">fatal: clone of 'git://github.com/ghc/packages/Cabal.git' into submodule path '/Users/rae/ltemp/ghc-test/libraries/Cabal' failed<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Is there something wrong in the internets? Or should we update the Newcomers page?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Richard<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">ghc-devs mailing list<br class="">ghc-devs@haskell.org<br class="">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs<br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>