Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Norman Dunbar via fpc-pascal
Good Evening All. Many thanks for all your replies. I have finally managed to form the GitLab repo. I have no idea what the problem was, but it occurred tonight on my first attempt, but my second attempt with the same settings, worked fine. To answer your questions: The error occurred when I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 5/1/23 18:55, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote: > I just tried, and had no problems. It took about 40 seconds to clone and > checkout the `main` branch. The download seemed to be just over 200MB. Just tried the Gitlab repo too - same result. No problems. G.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 4/30/23 15:23, Norman Dunbar via fpc-pascal wrote: > Any advice gratefully reeceived. Thanks. I just tried, and had no problems. It took about 40 seconds to clone and checkout the `main` branch. The download seemed to be just over 200MB.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 4/30/23 15:59, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > One possible reason is that the repo is simply too big: it has 26 years of > commits. I can't imagine that being the reason. I just did a fresh clone, and it was just over 200MB download, and the commit count on the main branch is less

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Martin Frb via fpc-pascal
On 01/05/2023 20:02, Norman Dunbar via fpc-pascal wrote: On 1 May 2023 17:27:52 BST, Christo Crause via fpc-pascal wrote: > FWIW, there are currently 68 forks of > the FPC source repository on GitLab. ... I noticed that when I tried to fork it. Unfortunately I am not able to fork those now

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Norman Dunbar via fpc-pascal
On 1 May 2023 17:27:52 BST, Christo Crause via fpc-pascal wrote: > FWIW, there are currently 68 forks of > the FPC source repository on GitLab. ... I noticed that when I tried to fork it. Unfortunately I am not able to fork those now either. Admittedly, I didn't try to fork all of them

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Christo Crause via fpc-pascal
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 4:24 PM Norman Dunbar via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > On 30/04/2023 16:59, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > > > The repo is not private. > Ok, thanks. my assumption was obviously incorrect then. > > > > One possible reason is that the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-05-01 Thread Norman Dunbar via fpc-pascal
On 30/04/2023 16:59, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: The repo is not private. Ok, thanks. my assumption was obviously incorrect then. One possible reason is that the repo is simply too big: it has 26 years of commits. We had serious problems importing it for this very reason.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-04-30 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Sun, 30 Apr 2023, Norman Dunbar via fpc-pascal wrote: Good Afternoon All. I'm attempting to fork the FPC Source repository on GitLab so that I can occasionally make some updates to the M68K Sinclair QL cross compiler RTL and Unit files. However, I get an error messages saying "an error

[fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

2023-04-30 Thread Norman Dunbar via fpc-pascal
Good Afternoon All. I'm attempting to fork the FPC Source repository on GitLab so that I can occasionally make some updates to the M68K Sinclair QL cross compiler RTL and Unit files. However, I get an error messages saying "an error occurred, try again". This is constant with every attempt,