New Ft. for Git : Allow resumable cloning of repositories.
- From
- Kapil Jain <jkapil.cs@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 8, 2019, 15:43 UTC
- Message-ID
- <CAMknYENWOW0mj6Bn9OooqKg-sZi9bZUO461Gv1F00=phNwLFQQ@mail.gmail.com>
Objective: Allow pause and resume functionality while cloning repositories.
Below is a rough idea on how this may be achieved.
1) Create a repository_name.json file. 2) repository_name.json will be an index file containing list of all the files in the repository with default status being "False". "False" status of a file signifies that this file is not yet fully downloaded.
Something like this:
{
'file1.ext' : "False",
'file2.ext' : "False",
'file3.ext' : "False"
}3) As a file finishes downloading, say 'file1.ext' and 'file2.ext' have finished downloading, their status will change to:
Something like this:
{
'file1.ext' : "True",
'file2.ext' : "True",
'file3.ext' : "False"
}4) Suppose due to some reason, before 'file3.ext' could finish download; cloning is interrupted. 5) After the interruption the repository_name.json and downloaded files are preserved. 6) Now, when cloning of the same repository begins next time, files would be downloaded based on information taken from repository_name.json file.
Note 1: Doing this for cloning would be the main objective, further this may be extended for fetching, pulling, and pushing too.
Note 2: Since this is gsoc time, please don't take this to be a project idea for gsoc, as it was pointed out on irc that this would be a time intensive functionality.
I want to work on building this functionality. Please discuss thoughts on this, so as to make a technically sound to-do list.