Semaphore: Delays when checking out GitHub repos via SSH
Affected components: Semaphore
Timeline of updates
- investigating
We are currently investigating this issue.
- investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- identified
We identified that the issue is slow communication between our jobs and GitHub. We are currently working with our upstream provider to to resolve this. For impacted jobs, please replace the normal checkout command with the following: retry --times 5 "timeout 40 bash -lc 'source ~/.toolbox/toolbox; checkout'" And afterwards, use cd <dir> to change the directory to the cloned repository (replace <dir> with your project).
- monitoring
We are not currently seeing timeouts related to slow connections. Our team is continuing to monitor the situation to confirm that service has fully returned to normal.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
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This incident predates live tracking (October 17, 2026). It came from the vendor’s own published history, which is not covered by checkpoints.
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on stspg.io (opens in new tab).