Re: With big repos and slower connections, git clone can be hard to work with

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
>> One strategy people have worked on is for servers to point clients at
>> static packfiles (which _do_ remain byte-for-byte identical, and can be
>> resumed) to get some of the objects. But it requires some scheme on the
>> server side to decide when and how to create those packfiles. So while
>> there is support inside Git itself for this idea (both on the server and
>> client side), I don't know of any servers where it is in active use.
> 
> Didn't the bundle URL work originate at GitHub?  I thought this use
> case was a reasonable match to the mechanism.
>