From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git bundler service Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:13:23 -0700 Message-ID: <7vhb4fszsc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4E70F6E8.80408@dbservice.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Tomas Carnecky X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 14 21:13:35 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 1R3utr-00012m-1l for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:13:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757397Ab1INTN2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:13:28 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:42809 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757306Ab1INTN2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:13:28 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648545724; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:13:26 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=DyIHfwo6cxnS0TkGVptH388O3pY=; b=H5qWoh GlX5v8wzZCli6OZmE17P8b4AIB4JED4oVsqx5QNVnviFpVQbHhJG5pyFeBBUz0cj eyaN+lwofA5Js1zc4Yv9nPh/8F6rJdWqkdns0oQCFZvMCkt1lX58RnHUy2hGH+Mb EPoa1J4ue/kwFTGf1NkLE2I2j1Sz3os2mR6Ik= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=LKM5t8EUnhpIsBofBSTObEKBf+WvGhje jqbSdUMwd+8tt19wlnQoJCYT4t/um+easQlLJXNb2dLqzl4BXDNximN2zPL87+a/ CZ/bFiejc4NBNIeHzlQtCAgiDZP7IXOPMDopeJQVa+pnEhQyNoUUGp1NcwsiXUO1 K3kWqlPUdbU= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCD25723; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:13:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9465A5722; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:13:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4E70F6E8.80408@dbservice.com> (Tomas Carnecky's message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:48:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 9E6242B4-DF05-11E0-A7D7-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Tomas Carnecky 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).