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Re: New Feature wanted: Is it possible to let git clone continue last break point?

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2011, 09:07 UTC
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Hi,
netroby wrote:
> Is it possible to let git clone continue last break point.
> when we git clone very large project from the web,  we may face some
> interupt, then we must clone it from zero .
You might find [1] useful as a stopgap (thanks, Tomas!).

Something like Jeff's "priming the well with a server-specified bundle" proposal[2] might be a good way to make the same trick transparent to clients in the future.

Even with that, later fetches, which grab a pack generated on the fly to only contain the objects not already fetched, are generally not resumable. Overcoming that would presumably require larger protocol changes, and I don't know of anyone working on it. (My workaround when in a setup where this mattered was to use the old-fashioned "dumb" http protocol. It worked fine.)

Hope that helps, Jonathan

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181380
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/164569/focus=164701
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168906/focus=168912
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  4. netrobyOct 31, 2011
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