git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Continue git clone after interruption

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 18, 2009, 22:28 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.DEB.1.00.0908190022090.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.LFD.2.00.0908181537360.6044@xanadu.home>
Hi,
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
Show 9 quoted lines
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > There is another way which we can go to implement resumable clone. 
> > Let's git first try to clone whole repository (single pack; BTW what 
> > happens if this pack is larger than file size limit for given 
> > filesystem?).
> 
> We currently fail.  Seems that no one ever had a problem with that so 
> far.
They just went away, most probably.

But seriously, I miss a very important idea in this discussion: we control the Git source code. So we _can_ add a upload_pack feature that a client can ask for after the first failed attempt.

Ciao, Dscho

Previous: Sam VilainNext: Nicolas Pitre
Message 31 of 39 in “Continue git clone after interruption”
  1. Tomasz KontuszAug 17, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 17, 2009
  3. Shawn O. PearceAug 17, 2009
  4. Matthieu MoyAug 18, 2009
  5. Tomasz KontuszAug 18, 2009
  6. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2009
  7. Jakub NarebskiAug 18, 2009
  8. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiAug 18, 2009
  10. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2009
  11. Jakub NarebskiAug 19, 2009
  12. Nicolas PitreAug 19, 2009
  13. Jakub NarebskiAug 19, 2009
  14. Nicolas PitreAug 19, 2009
  15. Sam VilainAug 20, 2009
  16. Jakub NarebskiAug 20, 2009
  17. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 20, 2009
  18. Jakub NarebskiAug 20, 2009
  19. Nicolas PitreAug 20, 2009
  20. Jakub NarebskiAug 21, 2009
  21. Matthieu MoyAug 21, 2009
  22. Nicolas PitreAug 21, 2009
  23. Jakub NarebskiAug 21, 2009
  24. Nicolas PitreAug 22, 2009
  25. Sam VilainAug 21, 2009
  26. Nicolas PitreAug 22, 2009
  27. Sam VilainAug 22, 2009
  28. Nicolas PitreAug 22, 2009
  29. Sam VilainAug 23, 2009
  30. Sam VilainAug 20, 2009
  31. Johannes SchindelinAug 18, 2009
  32. Nicolas PitreAug 18, 2009
  33. Johannes SchindelinAug 19, 2009
  34. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 19, 2009
  35. Johannes SchindelinAug 19, 2009
  36. Nicolas PitreAug 19, 2009
  37. =?VISCII?Q?Ren=E9_Scharfe?=Aug 19, 2009
  38. Sitaram ChamartyAug 19, 2009
  39. Jakub NarebskiAug 19, 2009

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.