From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schubert 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 Message-ID: <4EAE9941.2080609@elegosoft.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netroby , Git Mail List To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 31 13:50:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RKrJk-0005vC-V5 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:50:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932950Ab1JaMuH (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:50:07 -0400 Received: from mx0.elegosoft.com ([78.47.87.163]:55870 "EHLO mx0.elegosoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932910Ab1JaMuG (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:50:06 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx0.elegosoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420E0DE723; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:50:04 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx0.elegosoft.com Received: from mx0.elegosoft.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx0.elegosoft.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HffF0-SXXKvB; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:49:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.10.10.197] (i59F7870A.versanet.de [89.247.135.10]) by mx0.elegosoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CCE65DE089; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:49:55 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/31/2011 10:14 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > netroby 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 ", > 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