From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:07:18 GMT
Subject: Re: New Feature wanted: Is it possible to let git clone continue last break point?
Message-ID: <20111031090717.GA24978@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAEZo+gcj5q2UYnak1+1UG7pPzoeaUr=QLsiCiNXbC_n+JQbKQQ@mail.gmail.com>

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