can't checkout ghc 8.6 branch correctly -- something wrong with transformers mirror repo?

[Carter Schonwald]

git clone --recursive git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git ghc-8.6.5-series -b
ghc-8.6
--- not using gitlab to clone seems to be the culprit ..


On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:18 PM Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey everyone, whats wrong with the 8.6 branch?
>
> when i do a fresh clone, i wind up with this error :
> $
> git submodule update  --init --recursive
> error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object
> def8c55d0c47c1c40de985d83f052f3659b40cfd
> Fetched in submodule path 'libraries/transformers', but it did not contain
> def8c55d0c47c1c40de985d83f052f3659b40cfd. Direct fetching of that commit
> failed.
> 14:17:43 ~/D/r/ghc-8.6.5-series (ghc-8.6|✚6) $
>
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