Re: Resumable clone

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2016, 09:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CESL6vH22mGSLRE1OKTEbGz2Vqmsv5bY3mn_E+03wADw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CANtyZjSJf5_xbsBC5tUaazFT3uiEgJnx2_kHLwYwKcn50Jy_qg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Kevin Wern <kevin.m.wern@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hey, all,
>
> A while ago, I noticed that if a clone is interrupted, it has to be
> restarted completely. When I looked up the issue, I saw that someone
> suggested resumable clones as a feature as early as 2007.  It doesn't
> seem like any progress has been made on this issue, so I began looking
> at relevant code yesterday to start working on it.
>
> Is someone working on this currently?  Are there any things I should
> know moving forward?  Is there a certain way I should break
> down/organize the feature when writing patches?

Resumable clone is happening. See [1] for the basic idea, [2] and [3] for some preparation work. I'm sure you can help. Once you've gone through at least [1], I think you can pick something (e.g. finalizing the protocol, update the server side, or git-clone....)

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/285921 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288080/focus=288150 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288205/focus=288222

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Duy