Re: Git stops forever while cloning remote repo

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 05:47:26PM +0400, oldb0t@ro.ru wrote:

> I try to clone https://github.com/angband/angband.git locally, and
> git stops in the middle, again and again, in different places. For
> instance, one time it was 38% of full repo, and another time it was
> 4% of depth 1 shallow clone. Once it stopped, it doesn't try to
> continue anymore, just get stuk forever. My internet connection is
> fine, all other works perfect: wget, browsers, mail client.

I tried to reproduce this here, but it works fine for me. Have you tried
cloning from git://github.com/angband/angband.git instead? If that works
better, that would give us a data point about where the problem is.

> Is there any way to force git to retry the connection? Something like
> wget does with -t and -T options. I use git 1.7.9.1 from Debian
> testing.

Unfortunately, no. Because the packs are generated on the fly, resuming
is tricky. One solution is to create static "bundles" that are
resumable, but not every service (nor most, really) does that[1].
However, you can try Tomas's bundler service, which will generate a
resumable bundle for you:

  https://bundler.caurea.org/

-Peff

[1] I hope to eventually have GitHub do this itself, but right now the
    client side of it is very manual. I have some patches in the works
    to make this happen transparently if the server advertises a bundle
    mirror.