Re: net/gitup began to fail

Thanks to Robert Vesterman for filing the bug report:

   https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295067

To summarize, edit gitup.conf and:

   1) change the ("defaults") "host" from "git.freebsd.org" to "github.com",
   2) change or set the ("ports") "repository" to "/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git" and
   3) comment or any ("ports") "repository_path".

Hopefully, one or more of the ports managers will update this list and
the ticket to let us know when we can revert back from MS' github.com to
ISC's git.freebsd.org[gitmir.geo.freebsd.org].

Roger

On Thu, 7 May 2026, Robert William Vesterman wrote:
> This is happening to me too, and others. Here are some links I've been 
> checking regarding it:
> 
> FreeBSD Forums: gitup: process_command: read failure
> Bugzilla: 295065, 295066, and 295067
> FreeBSD Hackers mailing list: gitup failure
> 
> The FreeBSD Hackers link is to the top email in the thread. Unfortunately I 
> don't know see any way to easily navigate a thread
> (like, I don't see a "Next in Thread" link). I've been occasionally 
> checking the May 2026 by-thread archive and just manually
> checking the links to individual messages in the thread.
> 
> I don't really understand why there are three separate Bugzilla reports. 
> They're all by the same person, who is also the person
> who started the thread in the FreeBSD Hackers mailing list. He gave an 
> explanation in the FreeBSD Forums thread, but it was
> pretty terse and I get the feeling that I might have misinterpreted it.
> 
> To be clear, there is currently (well, last I checked) nothing in any of 
> these things I linked to that seems particularly useful
> in a direct way to end users who are having the issue; just reports that 
> it's happening. But I imagine that eventually something
> will get to one or more of these.
> 
> On 5/7/2026 12:44 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> I successfully used port net/gitup to update ports tree. Suddenly it began
>> to fail. I deleted /usr/ports and told gitup to clone it - same error
>> (on both my hosts - workstation and VPS):
>> 
>> ~ # gitup -c ports
>> # Host: git.freebsd.org
>> # Port: 443
>> # Repository Path: /ports.git
>> # Target Directory: /usr/ports
>> # Want: 10584ee144da9593c353e500874e0683bcc2833f
>> # Branch: main
>> gitup: process_command: read failure:
>> 
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Server: nginx/1.28.3
>> Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 04:36:33 GMT
>> Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-result
>> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>> Connection: keep-alive
>> Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT
>> Pragma: no-cache
>> Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate
>> 0011shallow-info
>> 0001000dpackfile
>> 00052004PACK
>> : Invalid argument
>> ~ #
>> 
>> Debug with "-v 3" doesn't show more info.
>> 14.4-RELEASE-p3 amd64.
>>