Re: resumable git-clone?

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was on a crappy connection and it was frustrated seeing git-clone
> > reached 80% then failed, then started over again. Can we support
> > resumable git-clone at some level? I think we could split into several
> > small packs, keep fetched ones, just get missing packs until we have
> > all.
> 
> This is uh, difficult over the native git protocol.  The problem
> is the native protocol negotiates what the client already has and
> what it needs by comparing sets of commits.  If the client says
> "I have commit X" then the server assumes it has not only commit
> X _but also every object reachable from it_.

Now here is a thought: after an interrupted fetch, you could do a 
(possibly expensive) analysis what commits are dangling, but do not 
contain broken links in their _complete_ history.  Then mark them as 
(temporary) refs.

Another possibility should be to start with a shallow clone, and to deepen 
it.  However, IIRC there have been complaints that that does not work, and 
it was not my itch, so I did not come around to scratch it.

Ciao,
Dscho