[LLVMdev] [repository] Make LLVM repository Git-clonable

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim
> <michael.silvanus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> git svn clone --no-minimize-url -s http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm llvm
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/inf2/i2staff/salim/checkout/llvm/.git/
>> RA layer request failed: Server sent unexpected return value (403
>> Forbidden) in response to REPORT request for
>> '/svn/llvm-project/!svn/vcc/default' at /usr/lib/git/git-svn line 5047
>>
>> Any idea if this could be rectified?
>
> Several months ago it was determined that people scraping SVN history
> into their DVCS clones were hosing the server, so some attempt was
> made to forbid that, which I think you are running into.
>
A good solution, surely, would be to anoint a single official
Git/Mercurial mirror, and announce it in the same page as the SVN
checkout instructions?

Thanks,

-- 
Michel Alexandre Salim