Re: Resumable git clone?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2016, 08:41 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqziuh46hb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160302012922.GA17114@jtriplet-mobl2.jf.intel.com>

Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes:

> If you clone a repository, and the connection drops, the next attempt
> will have to start from scratch.  This can add significant time and
> expense if you're on a low-bandwidth or metered connection trying to
> clone something like Linux.

For this particular issue, your friendly k.org administrator already has a solution. Torvalds/linux.git is made into a bundle weekly with

    $ git bundle create clone.bundle --all

and the result placed on k.org CDN. So low-bandwidth cloners can grab it over resumable http, clone from the bundle, and then fill the most recent part by fetching from k.org already.

The tooling to allow this kind of "bundle" (and possibly other forms of "CDN offload" material) transparently used by "git clone" was the proposal by Shawn Pearce mentioned elsewhere in this thread.