[fpc-pascal] Forking the GitLab FPC Source repository

[Michalis Kamburelis]

Hi,

I had no trouble forking FPC sources on GitLab in the past, and now I
tested it again 2 times -- I can fork them without any issues (and my
fork is even private, that's OK too). After less than 1 minute of
waiting, both forks were created OK. See the screenshot :)

I don't have any constructive advise, and the message you mention "an
error occurred, try again" is quite cryptic. But at least for me, it
worked OK. Aside from just trying again later, you could submit an
issue to the GitLab support.

You can also check where do you create a fork. I tested forking into
my default user namespace (michaliskambi) and into a group
(michalis-private-tests). Maybe you're trying to create a fork into
some namespace that has some limits.

Regards,
Michalis

niedz., 30 kwi 2023 o 18:00 Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> napisał(a):
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>
>
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2023, Norman Dunbar via fpc-pascal wrote:
>
> > Good Afternoon All.
> >
> > I'm attempting to fork the FPC Source repository on GitLab so that I can
> > occasionally make some updates to the M68K Sinclair QL cross compiler RTL and
> > Unit files. However, I get an error messages saying "an error occurred, try
> > again". This is constant with every attempt, after fresh logins etc.
> >
> > I suspect that this is down to the repository being private? If indeed it is
> > private. There are docs on GitLab which advises that private repos can't be
> > cloned unless a member.
> >
> > Am I correct in this thinking? Is all I need to do is request access to the
> > official repo using the link on the home page for it?
>
> The repo is not private.
>
> >
> > I have checked the FPC development docs, Wiki and searched with
> > Google/DuckDuckGo to no avail.
> >
> > Any advice gratefully reeceived. Thanks.
>
> One possible reason is that the repo is simply too big: it has 26 years of
> commits.
>
> We had serious problems importing it for this very reason.
>
> Michael.
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