From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:28:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Continue git clone after interruption
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:

> 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