Re: resumable git-clone?

> So I've been thinking about teaching the server side, when responding to 
> a fetch request, to be able to say something like "Sorry but this 
> repository is for fetching by people who have at least these commits 
> from that other project I am a fork of." We make that "at least these 
> from that other project" part machine readable, and git-fetch request 
> git-clone makes can redirect itself to fill the prerequisites before 
> attempting to go there again.

> *1* Sheesh.  While I was writing this I noticed that the current
>     'git bundle' is suitable only for incremental sneakernet but
>     not for this particular use case.
> 
>     $ git bundle create 2612.bndl v2.6.12
> 
>     does not work, although
> 
>     $ git bundle create 2612-2613.bndl v2.6.12..v2.6.13
> 
>     does.  We need to fix this.