From: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:49:05 GMT
Subject: Re: New Feature wanted: Is it possible to let git clone continue last break point?
Message-ID: <4EAE9941.2080609@elegosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3obwx4j7s.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On 10/31/2011 10:14 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> netroby <hufeng1987@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Is it possible to let git clone continue last break point.
>> when we git clone very large project from the web,  we may face some
>> interupt, then we must clone it from zero .
>>
>> it is bad feeling for low  connection  speed users.
>>
>> please help us out.
>>
>> we need git clone continue last break point
> 
> Resuming "git clone" is not currently possible in Git, and it would be
> difficult to add such feature to Git; there were several attempts and
> neither succeeded.
> 
> What you can do is generate a starter bundle out of your repository
> (using "git bundle"), and serve this file via HTTP / FTP / BitTorrent,
> i.e. some resumable transport.  Then you "git clone <bundle file>",
> fix up configuration, and fetch the rest since bundle creation.

There's also a "git bundler service":

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181380