From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:50:02 GMT
Subject: Re: How to resume broke clone ?
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In-Reply-To: <5297004F.4090003@gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or simply download the individual files (via ftp/http) and clone locally:
>
>> wget -r ftp://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
>> git clone git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
>> cd linux
>> git remote set-url origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Yeah I didn't realize it is published over dumb http too. You may need
to be careful with this though because it's not atomic and you may get
refs that point nowhere because you're already done with "pack"
directory when you come to fetcing "refs" and did not see new packs...
If dumb commit walker supports resume (I don't know) then it'll be
safer to do

git clone http://git.kernel.org/....

If it does not support resume, I don't think it's hard to do.
-- 
Duy