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

From: Craig Schlenter <craig@codefountain.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2006, 07:35 UTC
Message-ID: <5C03F8F8-656F-48B0-825C-DE55C837F996@codefountain.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtg2o37c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 11 Feb 2006, at 7:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: [snip]

> The real improvement, independent of this client-side patch,
> would be to reuse recently generated packs, but that needs
> writable cache directory on the server side.

Speaking of improvements, I've noticed that my attempts to track the 2.6 kernel via the git protocol result in inefficiencies from time to time when the connection hangs or is terminated when my flakey wireless link goes down. When I restart the pull, the data that has already been downloaded is lost and things start from scratch which is painful if it's a big update.

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?

Thank you,

--Craig