Failed to clone the git repo of lyx.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 1:28 AM Richard Kimberly Heck
<rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Why not just move the Git repository to Github, GitLab, and other free
git-based code hosting platforms?

> Riki

Regards,
Zhao