busybox authoritative git repository

[Stefan Seyfried]

Am 12.04.26 um 00:09 schrieb Laurent Bercot via busybox:
> 
>> I've just managed to clone the repo. It took me a couple of attempts
>> but it is working somehow.
> 
>   No it's not. It returns 404 to me. That is a permanent error;
> automation that tries to access it will, and *rightly so*, report a
> permanent failure. It cannot be relied upon in any way.

"curl https://git.busybox.net/busybox/" returns 404, but
"git clone https://git.busybox.net/busybox/" still succeeds.

"git clone" actually does not access the top level URL at all.
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Stefan Seyfried

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