Re: When are the git servers available to obtain the ports tree?

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 10:27:39AM -0700, Chris wrote:
> I'm a maintainer for well over 100 ports. But more often than
> not, I am not permitted to obtain the ports tree from any of
> the FreeBSD git servers:
> 
> # git clone -o freebsd --config 
> remote.freebsd.fetch='+refs/notes/*:refs/notes/*' 
> https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git PORTS-20220502
> 
> returns:
> error: RPC failed; HTTP 504 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 504
> fatal: error reading section header 'shallow-info'
> 
> What is the charge for obtaining a current ports tree? Can I purchase an
> annual subscription?
> 
> What else do I need to obtain the tree?
> .....

FWIW, I maintain (what are referred to later in the thread as) "personal
mirrors" (as I had with SVN, and CVS before that).  And after having
done so with git for a couple of years (? or so), I suddenly started
getting some errors -- I don't recall whether they were what you report
or not (I'm just back home after a couple of weeks 9 hours east of home,
so my brain is less functional than ususal), but I had received a
recommendation to run

	git maintenance run

and

	git gc

on my repos.  Doing that appeared to prevent a recurrence of the issue,
so I set up a cron task to do that on each repo every week.  (Since the
most critical time for me is the weekend, I do this in the "wee small
hours" of Thursday morning -- which should allow me time to take evasive
action (e.g., on Thursday or Friday) should something Go Wrong.)

Looks as if I set this up back near the end of January; no issues with
it so far since then.

I scribbled some notes on how I do that at
https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/repo-sync.html -- in case that
might be of interest or use.

Peace,
david
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