From: netroby Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:16:01 GMT Subject: Re: New Feature wanted: Is it possible to let git clone continue last break point? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20111031090717.GA24978@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> the example : i want to clone the freebsd and linux kernel git repo , to view their source code. git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git git://github.com/torvalds/linux.git they are big project, so they are huge. thanks for your tips. it will let me have a try . I am current using 256K Adsl , so it is very not stable when clone in progress. netroby ---------------------------------- http://www.netroby.com On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 17:07, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > netroby wrote: > >> Is it possible to let git clone continue last break point. >> when we git clone very large project from the web,  we may face some >> interupt, then we must clone it from zero . > > You might find [1] useful as a stopgap (thanks, Tomas!). > > Something like Jeff's "priming the well with a server-specified > bundle" proposal[2] might be a good way to make the same trick > transparent to clients in the future. > > Even with that, later fetches, which grab a pack generated on the fly > to only contain the objects not already fetched, are generally not > resumable.  Overcoming that would presumably require larger protocol > changes, and I don't know of anyone working on it.  (My workaround > when in a setup where this mattered was to use the old-fashioned > "dumb" http protocol.  It worked fine.) > > Hope that helps, > Jonathan > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181380 > [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/164569/focus=164701 >    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168906/focus=168912 >