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RE: Re-Transmission of blobs?

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Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
Date
Sep 13, 2013, 11:51 UTC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josef Wolf
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 6:23
> 
> 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....
I am using the mythical --resume, where it would fetch packs and indexes.
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> > [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.
That is kind of the point. It should be possible.
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  1. Josef WolfSep 10, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2013
  3. Josef WolfSep 11, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2013
  5. Josef WolfSep 12, 2013
  6. Jeff KingSep 12, 2013
  7. Josef WolfSep 12, 2013
  8. Jeff KingSep 12, 2013
  9. Josef WolfSep 13, 2013
  10. Jeff KingSep 16, 2013
  11. Josef WolfSep 20, 2013
  12. Jeff KingSep 24, 2013
  13. Josef WolfSep 24, 2013
  14. Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US)Sep 12, 2013
  15. Jeff KingSep 12, 2013
  16. Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US)Sep 12, 2013
  17. Josef WolfSep 13, 2013
  18. Jason PyeronSep 13, 2013
  19. Duy NguyenSep 13, 2013

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