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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Continue git clone after interruption
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:40:27 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > > There is another way which we can go to implement resumable clone. 
> > > Let's git first try to clone whole repository (single pack; BTW what 
> > > happens if this pack is larger than file size limit for given 
> > > filesystem?).
> > 
> > We currently fail.  Seems that no one ever had a problem with that so 
> > far.
> 
> They just went away, most probably.

Most probably they simply don't exist.  I would be highly surprised 
otherwise.

> But seriously, I miss a very important idea in this discussion: we control 
> the Git source code.  So we _can_ add a upload_pack feature that a client 
> can ask for after the first failed attempt.

Indeed.  So what do you think about my proposal?  It was included in my 
first reply to this thread.


Nicolas