submodule repos on GitHub

[Artem Pelenitsyn]

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 <matthewtpickering at gmail.com
>:

> 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 at 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 at 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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