I was – for quite a long time today, so I thought I’d share this fix. My problem was with downloading the glibc and newlib repos.
These were marked as being at git://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git and git://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git.
When I replaced git:// with https://, the problem was solved.
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