`search` with git url does not work with one repo, but works with others

[themightyoarfish]

When I run this:

uvx --from "semble[mcp]" semble search "test" "https://github.com/MinishLab/semble"

I get some output as expected. However, if I search this repo (which clones normally with git), the command times out after a while

uvx --from "semble[mcp]" semble search "test" "https://github.com/llmware-ai/llmware"

RuntimeError: git clone timed out for 'https://github.com/llmware-ai/llmware' (limit: 60 s)

How could this happen?

[stephantul]

Hello! Can you confirm that llmware clones normally within 60 seconds? It might be that the timeout is too low. Also note that Github is having a lot of issues (at least here), so it could also be that.

When trying to perform a shallow clone, I get this:

error: RPC failed; curl 56 Recv failure: Software caused connection abort
error: 6366 bytes of body are still expected
fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

As a workaround, you can just clone it and operate on your cloned repo.

[themightyoarfish]

It did clone normally with git when i encountered this. The problem is that this command is invoked by an agent during planning, and when it times out the plan is incomplete.

[stephantul]

Ahh ok that's interesting. I'll investigate further.

In the meantime, you can always set the environment variable SEMBLE_CLONE_TIMEOUT to a higher value. It's 60 by default, but maybe setting it to a really high value will not cause it to time out. FWIW, we just call your standard configured git, and perform the most shallow clone possible.

[themightyoarfish]

Interestingly it works now, so it must have been some github glitch. I did the semble command and git clone several times one after the other, so its a bit odd.