From: Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:23:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Re-Transmission of blobs?
Message-ID: <20130913102316.GF14259@raven.wolf.lan>
In-Reply-To: <871B6C10EBEFE342A772D1159D132085571A7E5C@umechphj.easf.csd.disa.mil>

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.
[ ... ]
> 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.

:-( :-( :-(

-- 
Josef Wolf
jw@raven.inka.de