Re: git repo down?

Hi!

Has your problem been solved?

I just tried the exact same command which did not failed. It took about 2 minutes to download and a bit more to resolve deltas.

You might try with the verbose flag, or with —depth 1 to debug your problem, which is also way faster.

git clone https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports --verbose --progress --depth 1
Cloning into '/usr/ports'...
POST git-upload-pack (183 bytes)
POST git-upload-pack (237 bytes)
remote: Enumerating objects: 211139, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (211139/211139), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (196855/196855), done.
remote: Total 211139 (delta 16254), reused 135638 (delta 6921), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (211139/211139), 103.83 MiB | 7.51 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (16254/16254), done.
Updating files: 100% (175149/175149), done.

> On 7 Jun 2026, at 19:58, Kevin Oberman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to clone the ports repo (latest) with:
> git clone https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports
> It sits for 5 minutes (eating 99& of a single thread) and exits with:
> error: RPC failed; HTTP 504 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 504
> fatal: expected 'packfile'
> 
> Is there a problem or am I doing something wrong?
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