From: ellie <el@horse64.org>
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:16:21 GMT
Subject: Re: With big repos and slower connections, git clone can be hard to work with
Message-ID: <15611436-01a4-4df5-a8a6-240e502128e4@horse64.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8qzfcl98.fsf@gitster.g>

(I'm probably not the person to answer fully. But I can say HTTPS Git 
clones from GitHub don't ever resume for me, if that's informative.)

On 6/8/24 9:00 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.
>