Re: Re-Transmission of blobs?
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:06:35PM +0000, Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US) wrote:
> Yes, but it is those awfully slow connections (slower that the looping
> issue) which happen to always drop while cloning from our office. And the
> round trip should be mitigated by http-keep-alives.
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> But, again if the connection drops, we have already lost the delta
> advantage. I would think the scenario would go like this:
>
> git clone url://blah/blah
> [fail]
> cd blah
> git clone --resume #uses normal methods....
> [fail]
> while ! git clone --resume --HitItWithAStick
>
> replace clone with fetch for that use case too
Last time I checked, cloning could not be resumed:
http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-clone-and-unreliable-links-td7570652.html
If you're on a slow/unreliable link, you've lost.
:-( :-( :-(
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Josef Wolf
jw@raven.inka.de