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Re: temporarily giving up using Git for GCC MELT
- From: Miles Bader <miles at gnu dot org>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:34:49 +0900
- Subject: Re: temporarily giving up using Git for GCC MELT
- References: <20110225143201.GA10110@ours.starynkevitch.net>
Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net> writes:
> PS. By the way, git clone-ing the GCC git repository takes a lot of time
> from Europe. Perhaps having a daily tar ball of the result of that command
> available by ftp would be very nice....
Do you use the http: or git: protocol for cloning? The official gcc git
repo only supports the "old" git http: protocol, which is almost useless
on slow/high-latency networks...
[There's also a github mirror, and github supports the "smart" http:
protocol: https://github.com/mirrors/gcc.git ]
-Miles
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