Failed to clone the git repo of lyx.

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 1/16/24 08:02, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> 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...

Yes, I was thinking something like that, too. Even if it were only 
updated once a year, it'd still make a huge difference.

I tried cloning the repo on GitLab (with the idea of instituting 
automatic updates), but it did not work. I'm guessing it might have 
timed out.

Riki