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From: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: netroby <hufeng1987@gmail.com>, Git Mail List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New Feature wanted: Is it possible to let git clone continue last break point?
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:49:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAE9941.2080609@elegosoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3obwx4j7s.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On 10/31/2011 10:14 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> netroby <hufeng1987@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Is it possible to let git clone continue last break point.
>> when we git clone very large project from the web,  we may face some
>> interupt, then we must clone it from zero .
>>
>> it is bad feeling for low  connection  speed users.
>>
>> please help us out.
>>
>> we need git clone continue last break point
> 
> Resuming "git clone" is not currently possible in Git, and it would be
> difficult to add such feature to Git; there were several attempts and
> neither succeeded.
> 
> What you can do is generate a starter bundle out of your repository
> (using "git bundle"), and serve this file via HTTP / FTP / BitTorrent,
> i.e. some resumable transport.  Then you "git clone <bundle file>",
> fix up configuration, and fetch the rest since bundle creation.

There's also a "git bundler service":

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181380

      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-31 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-10-31  2:28 ` New Feature wanted: Is it possible to let git clone continue last break point? netroby
2011-10-31  4:00   ` Tay Ray Chuan
2011-10-31  9:07   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-31  9:16     ` netroby
2011-11-02 22:06     ` Jeff King
2011-11-02 22:41       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-02 23:27         ` Jeff King
2011-11-03  0:06           ` Shawn Pearce
2011-11-03  2:42             ` Jeff King
2011-11-03  4:19               ` Shawn Pearce
2011-11-04  8:56                 ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-11-04  9:35                   ` Johannes Sixt
2011-11-04 14:22                     ` Shawn Pearce
2011-11-04 15:55                       ` Jakub Narebski
2011-11-04 16:05                       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-11-05 10:00                       ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-10-31  9:14   ` Jakub Narebski
2011-10-31 12:49     ` Michael Schubert [this message]

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