Re: Continue git clone after interruption

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Aug 18, 2009, 05:43 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqskfphe2k.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908171430010.4991@intel-tinevez-2-302>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Tomasz Kontusz wrote:
>
>> is anybody working on making it possible to continue git clone after 
>> interruption? It would be quite useful for people with bad internet 
>> connection (I was downloading a big repo lately, and it was a bit 
>> frustrating to start it over every time git stopped at ~90%).
>
> Unfortunately, we did not have enough GSoC slots for the project to allow 
> restartable clones.
>
> There were discussions about how to implement this on the list,
> though.

And a paragraph on the wiki:

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2009Ideas#RestartableClone

-- 
Matthieu