Thanks to Robert Vesterman for filing the bug report:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295067
To summarize, edit gitup.conf and:
1) change the ("defaults") "host" from "git.freebsd.org" to "github.com",
2) change or set the ("ports") "repository" to "/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git"
and
3) comment or any ("ports") "repository_path".
Hopefully, one or more of the ports managers will update this list and
the ticket to let us know when we can revert back from MS' github.com to
ISC's git.freebsd.org[gitmir.geo.freebsd.org].
Roger
On Thu, 7 May 2026, Robert William Vesterman wrote:
This is happening to me too, and others. Here are some links I've been
checking regarding it:
FreeBSD Forums: gitup: process_command: read failure
Bugzilla: 295065, 295066, and 295067
FreeBSD Hackers mailing list: gitup failure
The FreeBSD Hackers link is to the top email in the thread. Unfortunately I
don't know see any way to easily navigate a thread
(like, I don't see a "Next in Thread" link). I've been occasionally
checking the May 2026 by-thread archive and just manually
checking the links to individual messages in the thread.
I don't really understand why there are three separate Bugzilla reports.
They're all by the same person, who is also the person
who started the thread in the FreeBSD Hackers mailing list. He gave an
explanation in the FreeBSD Forums thread, but it was
pretty terse and I get the feeling that I might have misinterpreted it.
To be clear, there is currently (well, last I checked) nothing in any of
these things I linked to that seems particularly useful
in a direct way to end users who are having the issue; just reports that
it's happening. But I imagine that eventually something
will get to one or more of these.
On 5/7/2026 12:44 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I successfully used port net/gitup to update ports tree. Suddenly it began
to fail. I deleted /usr/ports and told gitup to clone it - same error
(on both my hosts - workstation and VPS):
~ # gitup -c ports
# Host: git.freebsd.org
# Port: 443
# Repository Path: /ports.git
# Target Directory: /usr/ports
# Want: 10584ee144da9593c353e500874e0683bcc2833f
# Branch: main
gitup: process_command: read failure:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.28.3
Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 04:36:33 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-git-upload-pack-result
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate
0011shallow-info
0001000dpackfile
00052004PACK
: Invalid argument
~ #
Debug with "-v 3" doesn't show more info.
14.4-RELEASE-p3 amd64.
