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Re: Speedlimit at "git clone"

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Baz <brian.ewins@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 7, 2009, 11:15 UTC
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2009/12/6 Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>:
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> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Jeff King wrote:
>
>>>> how can i limit the download speed at "git clone"?
>>>>
>>> no one any idea?
>>
>> Git has no internal support for doing this.
>
> libcurl provides such a feature so if the clone is done over HTTP it would
> be easy to offer, but I figure it would also be weird to only provide it
> over a single particular transfer method...

There is always 'trickle'. http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle

I think this is the preload-based tool Peff was thinking of. I've not used it with git, but I have used it successfully limiting bandwidth for other downloads.

-Baz
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Message 5 of 5 in “Speedlimit at "git clone"”
  1. Stefan KuhneDec 3, 2009
  2. Stefan KuhneDec 5, 2009
  3. Jeff KingDec 6, 2009
  4. Daniel StenbergDec 6, 2009
  5. BazDec 7, 2009

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