submodule repos on GitHub

[Matthew Pickering]

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
<haskelier.artem at gmail.com> 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 <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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