submodule repos on GitHub

[Artem Pelenitsyn]

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

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Best, Artem
вт, 17 июля 2018 г. в 22:59, Richard Eisenberg <rae at cs.brynmawr.edu>:

> 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 at 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 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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