[Alioth-staff-replacement] Cannot clone repository from alioth-archive.d.o

[Shengjing Zhu]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 5:41 AM Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org> wrote:
>
> I tried the following:
>
> % GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 GIT_TRACE=1 git clone https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/pkg-freeradius/freeradius.git
> […]
> > GET /git/pkg-freeradius/freeradius.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
> […]
> < HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there another way to access the git repos in the archive?
>

Since this is plain http server, and the repo doesn't run
git-update-server-info[1], you can't use git-clone.
But you're still able to download the whole directory with lftp, wget,
etc. Then clone it locally.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-update-server-info


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Regards,
Shengjing Zhu