Issues Cloning Spec repo - GitHub taking a very long time to download changes to the Specs Repo

[jlubeck]

Note from @orta -

If you are here because your Specs repo isn't updating, run: cd ~/.cocoapods/repos/master && git fetch --depth=2147483647 - this will convert your local repository of Podspecs to be a full clone, as opposed to a shallow copy.

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What did you do?

Run pod setup

What did you expected to happen?

Clone Spec repo master

What happened instead?

It only downloads a few bytes and then throws error:

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git/': transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining

Podfile

No Podfile yet

I also tried cloning the repo manually or with the githhub desktop app with no avail.
I´m having no issues cloning any other repo in github. Only with this one. Is it possible there is something wrong with it???

Thanks

[jlubeck]

Tried again, new error:

error: RPC failed; result=18, HTTP code = 200
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
[!] /usr/bin/git clone https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git master --depth=1

Cloning into 'master'...
error: RPC failed; result=18, HTTP code = 200
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Very weird...

[ecch531]

I got same issue, too.

[mangofever]

Same.
Cannot clone spec repo.

[art-divin]

+1, same issue
git clone https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git takes forever

[stringsanbu]

+1, been messing around with this for awhile. I doubled the buffer, didn't work. Uninstalled and reinstalled pods, didn't work. Tried to clone manually, no cigar. It actually seems to be getting "something" but fails. Using verbose didn't say much, just said it had issues accessing it.

I tried accessing my other repos and it seemed to be OK, but it was definitely slower than normal.

[huinme]

+1

I got same issue, too.
my pod version was "0.39.0"

I tried cloning master repos directly (by git clone git@github.com:CocoaPods/Specs.git master --depth=1 --verbose), but also failed.

[oronbz]

+1

[alexmnps]

+1

[pedrocid]

+1

[MarkMolina]

+1. No success after increasing buffer / reinstall / manual clone

[stringsanbu]

Temporary workaround which might work: https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/archive/master.zip haven't tested though

wget https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/archive/master.zip

[samuel-mellert]

https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/archive/master.zip would be the correct link, I guess?

Same error here. What should we do with the file at https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs/archive/master.zip ?

[stringsanbu]

My bad, the wget link is correct. Just edited my first link.

[stringsanbu]

Not sure what to do with the file yet. Trying to see if we can manually run the commands to have pod setup work.