Re[2]: busybox authoritative git repository (was: AI recommended changing from using git port to https?)

Laurent Bercot via busybox <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:09:27 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.busybox
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>I've just managed to clone the repo. It took me a couple of attempts
>but it is working somehow.

  No it's not. It returns 404 to me. That is a permanent error;
automation that tries to access it will, and *rightly so*, report a
permanent failure. It cannot be relied upon in any way.

  It would be "working, kinda" if it returned a 500 or 502 error,
signaling temporary failure (likely due to overload), with a decent
change of getting a 200 with what you want.

  I would consider it working if you could get a 200 more than 99% of
the time, and the occasional 50x; a 404 is just no.

--
  Laurent