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Re: git not resuming push

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PBPaul Brossier <piem@piem.org>
Date
Nov 23, 2011, 17:25 UTC
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ok, that, with a bit of patience, should help!
thank you both for your answers,
piem
On 22/11/2011 23:24, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King<peff@peff.net>  writes:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:58:56PM -0700, Paul Brossier wrote:
>>
>>> If the connection fails after uploading part of the data, it seems I
>>> need to start over from zero again. Is there a way to resume the upload
>>> instead?
>>
>> No, there isn't a way to resume just using push.
>>
>> If you have shell access on the server, one workaround you can do is to
>> create a bundle with the commits in question, upload it via some
>> resumable protocol (like sftp, http, rsync, etc), possibly taking many
>> attempts, and then fetch the result on the server side from the bundle
>> into the repository.
>>
>> See "git help bundle" for some examples.
>
> Another possibility, if it is the connection between you and the other
> side that is the problem, is to chunk your push in smaller pieces. That
> is, if you are trying to push out v3.0, you first push only to v1.0, then
> to v2.0, and then finally to v3.0.
>
> Peff, by the way, wouldn't this request reminds of us of a scenario we
> discussed recently, which I said I would imagine would be common while you
> dismissed as not likely to be common?
>
>
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  3. Junio C HamanoNov 23, 2011
  4. Paul BrossierNov 23, 2011
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