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Engineering For Slow Internet Even When Not Stuck In Antarctica (hackaday.com)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that that was what I was hitting. Hmm. Okay, that's actually good

so it's not a git bug, then, but something problematic in GitHub's infrastructure.

EDIT: On that bug, they say that they fixed it a couple months ago:

This seems to have been fixed at some point during the last days leading up to today (2025-03-21), thanks in part to @MarinoJurisic 's tireless efforts to convince Github support to revisit this problem!!! 🎉

So hopefully it's dead even specifically for GitHub. Excellent. Man, that was obnoxious.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I wonder if there is a retry or something on git? I know there is if you create a basic bash script, but we can assume someone is having the same issue, right?

I did see some depth=1 or something like that to get only a certain depth of git commits but thats about it.

I cant find the curl workaround I used a long time ago. It might have been just pulling the code as a zip or something like some GH repos let you do.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

I did see some depth=1 or something like that to get only a certain depth of git commits but thats about it.

Yeah, that's a shallow clone. That reduces what it pulls down, and I did try that (you most-likely want a bit more, probably to also ask to only pull down data from a single branch) but back when I was crashing into it, that wasn't enough for the Cataclysm repo.

It looks like it's fixed as of early this year; I updated my comment above.