AI recommended changing from using git port to https?

Sat Apr 11 12:06:35 UTC 2026

On 11 Apr 2026 at 15:03, Maksim Dmitrichenko via busyb wrote:

Date sent:      	Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:03:38 +0400
Subject:        	Re: AI recommended changing from using git port 
to https?
Copies to:      	busybox at busybox.net
From:           	Maksim Dmitrichenko via busybox 
<busybox at busybox.net>
Send reply to:  	Maksim Dmitrichenko <dmitrmax at gmail.com>

> Michael, are you from the BusyBox team?
> 
> I don't know the exact list of members of the BusyBox maintainers, but
> one of them is definitely Denys Vlasenko who haven't posted for quite
> some time now. The project is starting to look abandoned without any
> updates from the maintainers. So all of your suggestions are for
> nobody.
> 

I've just been an user of busybox on project I took over in 2004, so 
noticed that up until the last page update with 
27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable) 
The page was getting updated with stable and unstable changes.
Not sure what happened after that update??

Did just do a comparison between two of the files in snapshot 
directory.
https://busybox.net/downloads/snapshots/
busybox-20260312.tar..> 2026-03-12 00:20  2.5M oldest
busybox-20260411.tar..> 2026-04-11 00:20  2.5M newest

diff -r a b | grep "<\|>" | wc -l
64

So, not a huge number of changes, but there are updates?
comparing 1.37 bz2 file to 1.38 git bz2 file has about 18,000 lines of 
difference. So the snap shows are getting some updates?

diff -r a b | grep "<" | wc -l
24
diff -r a b | grep ">" | wc -l
44

So Project isn't dead. Perhaps whoever was doing the main web 
page is no longer active?? Did send emails to the emails listed. Both 
gmail and googlemail?? No responses.

Have been testing and the regular git pull gives errors.
git pull
fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer

While on using https seems to be solid.
./gitpull2.ch 
Nothing changed (Already up to date).

difference in .git/config
7c7
< 	url = git://busybox.net/busybox.git
> 	url = https://git.busybox.net/busybox

git pull uses first line.

gitpull2.sh has
git remote set-url origin https://git.busybox.net/busybox
before the git pull

Full script (But untest since haven't had a pull with change)
cat gitpull2.ch 
cd /home/msetzerii/Downloads/busybox
git remote set-url origin https://git.busybox.net/busybox
# Save the current state
PRE_PULL=$(git rev-parse HEAD)

# Pull (silencing the progress noise if you want)
git pull > /tmp/gitpull_out 2> /tmp/gitpull_err
EXIT_CODE=$?

# Check the new state
POST_PULL=$(git rev-parse HEAD)

if [ $EXIT_CODE -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "Pull failed with code $EXIT_CODE. Check /tmp/gitpull_err"
elif [ "$PRE_PULL" == "$POST_PULL" ]; then
    echo "Nothing changed (Already up to date)."
else
    echo "Success: New changes were applied."
	cp /home/msetzerii/g4l0.70alpha/busybox-1.38.0.git.config 
.config
	make oldconfig
	time make -j8
	cmp -l busybox /usr/bin/busybox
	cp busybox /usr/bin/busybox
	cp -p busybox /home/msetzerii/g4l0.70alpha/
	diff .config 
/home/msetzerii/test70/g4l/bootcd/isolinux/other/busybox-1.38.0.git.
config 
	cp .config 
/home/msetzerii/test70/g4l/bootcd/isolinux/other/busybox-1.38.0.git.
config 
	cp .config 
/home/msetzerii/g4l0.70alpha/busybox-1.38.0.git.config 

fi

So, I'm thinking the busybox project has a communication issue 
with maintaners. Will patches are being done, the main page is not 
being correctly updated.

Thanks for the reply.

> сб, 11 апр. 2026 г. в 09:54, Michael D. Setzer II via busybox
> <busybox at busybox.net>:
> >
> > Have done testing, and haven't seen the issues with git clone or git pull with networking issues.
> > cat gitpull2.ch
> > cd /home/msetzerii/Downloads/busybox
> > git remote set-url origin https://git.busybox.net/busybox
> > # Save the current state
> > PRE_PULL=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
> > # Pull (silencing the progress noise if you want)
> > git pull > /tmp/gitpull_out 2> /tmp/gitpull_err
> > EXIT_CODE=$?
> > # Check the new state
> > POST_PULL=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
> > if [ $EXIT_CODE -ne 0 ]; then
> >     echo "Pull failed with code $EXIT_CODE. Check /tmp/gitpull_err"
> > elif [ "$PRE_PULL" == "$POST_PULL" ]; then
> >     echo "Nothing changed (Already up to date)."
> > else
> >     echo "Success: New changes were applied."
> >     cp /home/msetzerii/g4l0.70alpha/busybox-1.38.0.git.config .config
> >     make oldconfig
> >     make -j8
> >     cmp -l busybox /usr/bin/busybox
> >     cp busybox /usr/bin/busybox
> > fi
> > Haven't have a pull find a change yet, so just seen.
> > # ./gitpull2.ch
> > Nothing changed (Already up to date).
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