submodule repos on GitHub

[Richard Eisenberg]

How clever of someone to note that. I stand down. Thanks!

> On Jul 17, 2018, at 5:08 PM, Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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