Re: git pull -> HTTP error 429 (too many requests)

Mikael Morin via Gcc <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 12/08/2026 à 12:28, Georg-Johann Lay via Gcc a écrit :
> Am 11.08.26 um 13:28 schrieb Josef Melcr:
>> On Tue Aug 11, 2026 at 11:36 AM CEST, Georg-Johann Lay via Gcc wrote:
>>> I am getting this error when trying to access the gcc git repo:
>>>
>>> gjl@cfarm121:~/gnu/source/gcc-master$ git pull
>>> fatal: unable to access 'https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git/': The
>>> requested URL returned error: 429
>>
>> Try 'git://' instead of 'https://'.
> 
> That worked, bu what's unclear to me is whether it is a git server
> issue or an issue of the cfarm client.

It is a server issue; they added a HTTP reverse proxy that returns this 
error to reduce the load on the real servers downstream when there are 
many incoming connections.

As a HTTP proxy, it doesn't touch non-HTTP streams, so git protocol 
streams don't have the problem.
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