Re: Moving to Github ... ?

On Thu, 7 May 2026 16:09:20 +0200
Sam Thursfield via busybox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I notice the busybox.net "Browse Source" website switched to 
> https://github.com/vda-linux/busybox_mirror. Is it worth treating that 
> as the canonical location for now?
> 
> I can see a couple of previous threads about issues with the busybox.net 
> Git hosting, I'm guessing this the same infrastructure abuse that most 
> open source projects have been seeing recently.. my commiserations that 
> you're having to deal with this :/
> 
>    * "busybox authoritative git repository (was: AI recommended changing 
> from using git port to https?)" 
> (https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2026-April/092059.html)
>    * "Not clear what is going on with site and git." 
> (https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2026-March/091970.html)
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Sam
> 

Hi,
this new github repository is not as useful as the original busybox one,
if int the master branch you click on the commits link to see the list
of commits you get this error message:

Too many requests

You have exceeded a secondary rate limit.

Please wait a few minutes before you try again;
in some cases this may take up to an hour.
Signing in may provide a higher rate limit if you are not already signed in.

For more on scraping GitHub and how it may affect your rights, please review our Terms of Service. 


I cannot say if signing  in helps with that because I have no account, yet this is still sub-optimal.

Ciao,
Tito