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I'm trying to download the sources of monodevelop. I'm using the msys2 git instead of the recommended git for Windows but since the latter is basically a stripped-down msys2 version anyway that should not be a problem, and works for part of the repo.

But I encounter timeouts for some (but not all) submodules:

The cloning works well till here and for the next two:

Submodule path 'main/external/guiunit': checked out '9affe4813987b009022ab7b10e55f81f4a37344c'
Submodule path 'main/external/libgit-binary': checked out '2871279e5d6abe886a571583ae72131fae2ffa53'
Submodule 'external/libgit2' (git://github.com/mono/libgit2.git) registered for path 'main/external/libgit-binary/external/libgit2'
Submodule 'external/libssh2' (git://github.com/libssh2/libssh2.git) registered for path 'main/external/libgit-binary/external/libssh2'

... and then fails for libssh2 and all further submodules.

A subsequent git pull --recurse-submodules fails as well (after working up to the same failing submodule), repeatedly, so this is not a throttling measure or the like.

I cannot be the only one facing this problem.

What's happening?

Peter - Reinstate Monica
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  • `git://` protocol was disabled at Github long ago. Use URL rewriting: `git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git://github.com/` before cloning. – phd Feb 27 '23 at 18:42
  • @phd Thanks. And the Monodevelop maintainers haven't fixed this? Nobody is building this on Windows? – Peter - Reinstate Monica Feb 27 '23 at 18:43
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    https://github.com/mono/monodevelop "(This repository has been archived by the owner on Oct 4, **2021**. It is now read-only.*" The most recent [branch `main`](https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/branches) was last updated 2 years ago. The project seems to be abandoned. – phd Feb 27 '23 at 18:46
  • @phd Oh. Those who can read have a clear advantage ;-). – Peter - Reinstate Monica Feb 27 '23 at 18:50
  • You can read and learn more about the background. People haven't been compiling it on Windows for many years, https://halfblood.pro/the-end-of-monodevelop-80b383dab34b – Lex Li Feb 27 '23 at 19:52

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