Hi Wojtek,
thank you for your suggestion.

So I understand the walkthrough would be to :
* edit manifest/default.xml and comment the repo which is unavailable 
* launch again `repo sync`
* download through SoftwareHeritage the content of the unavailable repo before 
continuing.

I probably missed something in the repo behaviour since it still tries to get 
the commented repo.

- Fil Lupin.

On Thursday, July 9th, 2026 at 3:30 PM, W. Kosior via Replicant 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> > Hi Wojtek,
> >
> > Is there any way of translating this into a git url that can be "git
> > cloned"? I figure there must be ... but I can't see for the life of
> > me where the git clone url is!
> 
> It wasn't obvious to me either.  But hey, there is the Internet!
> 
> I found that this [1] guide (sort of) works.  Minus that the "bundle"
> downloaded is not in the actual format we associate the term "git
> bundle" with (it's instead just a tar'ed .git directory).  And that for
> me, it gets downloaded as an uncompressed tar archive rather than
> gzip-compressed (as suggested by the author).
> 
> [1] https://til.simonwillison.net/github/software-archive-recovery
> 
> Also, even if you disable JS, you can easily find the `swh:1:snp:…' id
> in the source of that SWH page.
> 
> Btw, you might consider making the repository publicly cloneable.  Like
> putting it on Codeberg or repo.or.cz.
> 
> Btw2, I suspect the replicant servers had simply fallen prey to AI
> crawlers.  Disabling the web interface on git.replicant.us could help.
> And in the long run, it could be reinstated behind some
> crawler-stopper.  Even dumb solutions, like mine [2], seem to be still
> effective.
> 
> [2] 
> https://git.koszko.org/stop-crawlers?then=simple-browser-extension%2Flog%2F
> 
> Best!
> Wojtek
> 
> --
> W. Kosior
> 
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> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2026 15:41:36 +0100
> J05HYYY <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Wojtek,
> >
> > Is there any way of translating this into a git url that can be "git
> > cloned"? I figure there must be ... but I can't see for the life of
> > me where the git clone url is!
> >
> > https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://git.replicant.us/replicant/vendor_replicant-data&visit_type=git
> >
> > Josh
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 22:56:23 +0200
> > "W. Kosior via Replicant" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > since a few weeks, I encountered a lot of difficulties to repo sync
> > > > the repo of Replicant 6.
> > > >
> > > > Josh seems to get the same issues.
> > > >
> > > > Is there some way to solve this issue?
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > although I have never had the opportunity to touch
> > > a Replicant-supported device, I am following this list as part of
> > > peanut gallery and I think there might be a solution.
> > >
> > > Try marrying repo with SWH copy of the sources [1].
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://git.replicant.us/replicant/vendor_replicant-data&visit_type=git
> > >
> > > Good luck!
> > > Wojtek
> > >
> > > --
> > > W. Kosior
> > >
> > > website: https://koszko.org/koszko.html
> > > fediverse: https://friendica.me/profile/koszko/profile
> > > PGP fingerprint: E972 7060 E3C5 637C 8A4F  4B42 4BC5 221C 5A79 FD1A
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:54:55 +0000
> > > Fil Lupin via Replicant <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > since a few weeks, I encountered a lot of difficulties to repo sync
> > > > the repo of Replicant 6.
> > > >
> > > > Josh seems to get the same issues.
> > > >
> > > > Is there some way to solve this issue?
> > > >
> > > > last lines I got are
> > > > ---
> > > > Fetching projects: 99% (498/501)
> > > > replicant/vendor_replicant-scripts.giterror: Cannot fetch
> > > > replicant/vendor_replicant-data.git from
> > > > https://git.replicant.us/replicant/vendor_replicant-data.git
> > > > Fetching projects: 99% (499/501)
> > > > replicant/vendor_replicant-data.giterror: Cannot fetch
> > > > replicant/toolchain_binutils.git from
> > > > https://git.replicant.us/replicant/toolchain_binutils.gitFetching
> > > > projects: 99% (500/501) replicant/toolchain_binutils.git --- Regards
> > > >
> > > > - Fil Lupin.
> > >
> >
> 
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