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Re: Continue git clone after interruption

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Aug 17, 2009, 15:23 UTC
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<20090817152358.GV1033@spearce.org>
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Tomasz Kontusz wrote:
> 
> > is anybody working on making it possible to continue git clone after 
> > interruption? It would be quite useful for people with bad internet 
> > connection (I was downloading a big repo lately, and it was a bit 
> > frustrating to start it over every time git stopped at ~90%).
> 
> Unfortunately, we did not have enough GSoC slots for the project to allow 
> restartable clones.
> 
> There were discussions about how to implement this on the list, though.

Unfortunately, those of us who know how the native protocol works can't come to an agreement on how it might be restartable. If you really read the archives on this topic, you'll see that Nico and I disagree about how to do this. IIRC Nico's position is, it isn't really possible to implement a restart.

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 3 of 39 in “Continue git clone after interruption”
  1. Tomasz KontuszAug 17, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2009
  3. Shawn O. PearceAug 17, 2009
  4. Matthieu MoyAug 18, 2009
  5. Tomasz KontuszAug 18, 2009
  6. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2009
  7. Jakub NarebskiAug 18, 2009
  8. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiAug 18, 2009
  10. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2009
  11. Jakub NarebskiAug 19, 2009
  12. Nicolas PitreAug 19, 2009
  13. Jakub NarebskiAug 19, 2009
  14. Nicolas PitreAug 19, 2009
  15. Sam VilainAug 20, 2009
  16. Jakub NarebskiAug 20, 2009
  17. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 20, 2009
  18. Jakub NarebskiAug 20, 2009
  19. Nicolas PitreAug 20, 2009
  20. Jakub NarebskiAug 21, 2009
  21. Matthieu MoyAug 21, 2009
  22. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2009
  23. Jakub NarebskiAug 21, 2009
  24. Nicolas PitreAug 22, 2009
  25. Sam VilainAug 21, 2009
  26. Nicolas PitreAug 22, 2009
  27. Sam VilainAug 22, 2009
  28. Nicolas PitreAug 22, 2009
  29. Sam VilainAug 23, 2009
  30. Sam VilainAug 20, 2009
  31. Johannes SchindelinAug 18, 2009
  32. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2009
  33. Johannes SchindelinAug 19, 2009
  34. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 19, 2009
  35. Johannes SchindelinAug 19, 2009
  36. Nicolas PitreAug 19, 2009
  37. =?VISCII?Q?Ren=E9_Scharfe?=Aug 19, 2009
  38. Sitaram ChamartyAug 19, 2009
  39. Jakub NarebskiAug 19, 2009

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