Failed to clone the git repo of lyx.

Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org
Tue Jan 16 13:02:35 UTC 2024


On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 03:56:56PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > For me now, I can clone via
> >
> >  > git clone git://git.lyx.org/lyx.git
> >
> > anonymously. Does that work for you from the command line?
> 
> It also works for me, but the speed is very unstable, as shown in the
> attached screenshot. So, I want to clone through my local socks5 proxy
> running on 127.0.0.1:18888, but don't know how to achieve this goal.

Speed should be matter of initial clone only. Once you have it locally,
fetching updates are reasonably small even for connection speeds like 10kb/s...

What we could perhaps do on our part is to clone master branch, compress
it into single file and put on the http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
with short readme explaining the situation.
We have currently two chinese mirrors, so there is a good chance for you to get
the initial clone very fast and then continue by fetching from original source
(US, Oregon).


@Riki: we used to have something like this on the ftp in the svn-git times.
ATM it should be enough just to do clean clone, take only .git directory,
tar.xz(*) it, create signature and upload to ftp.
I can create some explanation on our web...

Pavel

(*) And zip? Dunno whether zipped clone on linux will work in windows
    environment. Alternatively we could ask Euegen for windows based
    clone.


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