Anonymous read-only Git access

[Kewen.Lin]

on 2020/3/5 下午2:33, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> On 2020-03-05 13:50 +0800, yilu@bupt.edu.cn wrote:
>> Hi,everyone
>> I want to get the GCC-10 source and I followed the instructions in 
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/git.html, however, the command
>> git clone git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git SomeLocalDir
>> cannot work. 
>> And I found I cannot connect https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git even without
>> firewall(I'm in China). I got a 403 Forbidden
>>  "You don't have permission to access /git/gcc.git/ on this server."
>>  "Apache Server at gcc.gnu.org Port 443".  
>> What can I do in this situation? 
> 
> I guess some guy in BUPT "attacked" gcc.gnu.org somehow (maybe unintentionally,
> just playing or testing some software) and caused the entire IP segment to be
> banned.
> 

Good guess.  Maybe try to browse https://gcc.gnu.org/git/.
I was guessing he accessed the link with browser instead of git clone,
since I got the same error too if try with browser.

BR,
Kewen