On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 1:28 AM Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1/16/24 08:02, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 03:56:56PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote: > >>> For me now, I can clone via > >>> > >>> > git clone git://git.lyx.org/lyx.git > >>> > >>> anonymously. Does that work for you from the command line? > >> It also works for me, but the speed is very unstable, as shown in the > >> attached screenshot. So, I want to clone through my local socks5 proxy > >> running on 127.0.0.1:18888, but don't know how to achieve this goal. > > Speed should be matter of initial clone only. Once you have it locally, > > fetching updates are reasonably small even for connection speeds like > > 10kb/s... > > > > What we could perhaps do on our part is to clone master branch, compress > > it into single file and put on the http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ > > with short readme explaining the situation. > > We have currently two chinese mirrors, so there is a good chance for you to > > get > > the initial clone very fast and then continue by fetching from original > > source > > (US, Oregon). > > > > @Riki: we used to have something like this on the ftp in the svn-git times. > > ATM it should be enough just to do clean clone, take only .git directory, > > tar.xz(*) it, create signature and upload to ftp. > > I can create some explanation on our web... > > Yes, I was thinking something like that, too. Even if it were only > updated once a year, it'd still make a huge difference. > > I tried cloning the repo on GitLab (with the idea of instituting > automatic updates), but it did not work. I'm guessing it might have > timed out.
Why not just move the Git repository to Github, GitLab, and other free git-based code hosting platforms? > Riki Regards, Zhao -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
