[aur-general] AUR git not working properly

[Eli Schwartz]

On 03/15/2016 09:15 AM, Jens Adam wrote:
> Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:18:25 +0100
> Daniel Milde <daniel at milde.cz>:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I am often getting error message when reading from AUR git repos:
>>
>> Timeout, server aur.archlinux.org not responding.
>> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
>> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
>> and the repository exists.
>>
>> Does anybody know why it's happening?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Daniel
> 
> I haven't seen any timeouts so far, but I can confirm noticing large
> delays with git operations, yes. Not sure since when though, a week
> perhaps?
> 
> --byte
> 

I'm getting large delays too. I only noticed today, but I haven't really
checked since last Thursday.

I am also noticing when cloning a new repo, I get:

warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

Apparently the HEAD ref is not being exported by the server. Solution:
`git checkout master` -- but that is still rather confusing.

-- 
Eli Schwartz