Does anyone know how to use http://fastgit.org/

Plugin Development
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I stumbled upon a init.lua that has a reference to the fastgit.org, in the site they say: Fast way to get github things.

In the code I came across we have:

local plug_url_format = ''
if vim.g.is_linux > 0 then
  plug_url_format = 'https://hub.fastgit.org/%s'
else
  plug_url_format = 'https://github.com/%s'
end
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Honestly, that site looks dodgy to me. If you are using http(s) to access git repositories (whether on GitHub or not) you can already get a good speed up by switching to the git protocol. In other words, use the links that start with git://, not those that start with http://.

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hi, author here. I use fastgit.org for some reasons. I am from China, and github connection is not quite good in China. So I choose to use fastgit. If you can connect to github easily in your country, you have no reason to use fastgit or other github CDNs out there.

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