Re: git repo down?

Kevin Oberman <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Jun 2026 15:52:57 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions
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Many thanks! Just tried it again and it downloads and unpacks just fine. I
have no idea why it was failing (timeut), but its working now.

On Sun, Jun 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM Léo BONIFACE <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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