Git repositories have several problems

I have some problems with the repositories. When i try to clone from the official repo:

» git clone --single-branch --branch master --depth=1 --recursive git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git ghc-head
Cloning into 'ghc-head'...
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

Maybe it's because the git server version is old (1.9.1). Without --depth=1 it works, but anyway it's an issue.

With the github mirror i have another problem:

Cloning into 'libraries/Cabal'...
fatal: remote error: 
  ghc/packages/Cabal is not a valid repository name
  Email support@github.com for help
fatal: clone of 'git://github.com/ghc/packages/Cabal.git' into submodule path 'libraries/Cabal' failed

With the phabricator repo the following issue:

command:

git clone --depth=1 --single-branch --branch ghc-8.6 --recursive https://phabricator.haskell.org/diffusion/GHC/glasgow-haskell-compiler.git ghc-8.6-head

error:

Cloning into '.arc-linters/arcanist-external-json-linter'...
error: RPC failed; HTTP 503 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 503 first byte timeout
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: clone of 'https://phabricator.haskell.org/diffusion/GHC/arcanist-external-json-linter.git' into submodule path '.arc-linters/arcanist-external-json-linter' failed

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TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	high
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Trac & Git
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I'm only guessing here, but the problem with github might be from not doing some configuration mentioned on the newcomers wiki page

# needed only once, URL rewrite rule is persisted in ${HOME}/.gitconfig
git config --global url."git://github.com/ghc/packages-".insteadOf git://github.com/ghc/packages/
# (if you already cloned using ssh, you'll need this rule instead to make submodules work:)
# git config --global url."git@github.com:ghc/packages-".insteadOf git@github.com:ghc/packages/

Ah yes you are right there are special instructions for cloning from github i missed that. So only 2 of 3 issues remain. However it would be better if those special things for github were not needed (but maybe there is no way around it)

I am a bit confused as to why your first attempt at cloning from git.haskell.org failed. Are you able to ping that host?

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