From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git bundler service
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:13:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhb4fszsc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E70F6E8.80408@dbservice.com> (Tomas Carnecky's message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:48:08 +0200")
Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> writes:
> I do a fair amount of end-user support in our official IRC channel and
> every now and then someone with a really slow or unreliable internet
> connection stumbles over the fact that git can't resume clones. In the
> past I would real quick clone the repo and make a bundle for them (if
> the repo was public). Now I made a service out of it:
> https://bundler.caurea.org/. The site is really simple: you enter a
> git url and after a while you'll be able to download the
> bundle.
Interesting, as I was talking with others on a related solution to a
similar issue of priming the well for large clones.
The basic idea is to allow a site automatically to redirect fresh-clone
clients to a URL to HTTP reachable mirror network, and force them to grab
a bundle, extract it and then re-contact the server for only incremental
updates relative to the bundle (and of course that exchange would happen
inside the updated client without end-user intervention).
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2011-09-14 18:48 git bundler service Tomas Carnecky
2011-09-14 19:13 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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