From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:13:23 GMT Subject: Re: git bundler service Message-ID: <7vhb4fszsc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4E70F6E8.80408@dbservice.com> Tomas Carnecky writes: > 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).