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 <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 <matthewtpicker...@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 <r...@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 supp...@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
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