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Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience

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RSRadoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@gorzow.mm.pl>
Date
Feb 11, 2006, 08:44 UTC
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Craig Schlenter wrote:
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> On 11 Feb 2006, at 7:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> It would be nice if the "partial pack" or whatever that has been
> downloaded at the time of the breakage could be re-used and
> things could start "from that point onwards" or the bits that were
> already received could be unpacked. Comments?

It even already works on plain http repos with git fetch. (e.g. WineHQ repository) Why git protocol doesn't support it?

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Message 7 of 24 in “Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience”
  1. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2006
  6. Craig SchlenterFeb 11, 2006
  7. Radoslaw SzkodzinskiFeb 11, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisFeb 11, 2006
  9. Radoslaw SzkodzinskiFeb 11, 2006
  10. Petr BaudisFeb 11, 2006
  11. Petr BaudisFeb 11, 2006
  12. Alex RiesenFeb 11, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  14. Keith PackardFeb 11, 2006
  15. Andreas EricssonFeb 12, 2006
  16. Keith PackardFeb 12, 2006
  17. Andreas EricssonFeb 12, 2006
  18. Keith PackardFeb 12, 2006
  19. Eric W. BiedermanFeb 16, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2006
  21. Martin LanghoffFeb 13, 2006
  22. Junio C HamanoFeb 13, 2006
  23. Alex RiesenFeb 11, 2006
  24. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006

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