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Re: git bundler service

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 14, 2011, 19:13 UTC
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Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> writes:
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> I do a fair amount of end-user support in our official IRC channel and
> every now and then someone with a really slow or unreliable internet
> connection stumbles over the fact that git can't resume clones. In the
> past I would real quick clone the repo and make a bundle for them (if
> the repo was public). Now I made a service out of it:
> https://bundler.caurea.org/. The site is really simple: you enter a
> git url and after a while you'll be able to download the
> bundle.

Interesting, as I was talking with others on a related solution to a similar issue of priming the well for large clones.

The basic idea is to allow a site automatically to redirect fresh-clone clients to a URL to HTTP reachable mirror network, and force them to grab a bundle, extract it and then re-contact the server for only incremental updates relative to the bundle (and of course that exchange would happen inside the updated client without end-user intervention).

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  1. Tomas CarneckySep 14, 2011
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