On Sunday, August 25, 2013 10:03:12 PM UTC+2, Shirish Agarwal wrote: > Hi all, > This is going to be a longish one, so please pull up a chair. > > I'm trying to get a repository . The repo. is > https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-game . Now I'm on a unstable > network so first I tried the classical way :- > > $ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-game.git > Cloning into 'flare-game'... > remote: Counting objects: 2731, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2474/2474), done. > Killeding objects: 17% (470/2731), 134.73 MiB | 57.00 KiB/s > > My network went down and I had to kill the running process because > when the network came back git didn't start from where it had let off. > > So I did the following :- > > Code: Select all > ~/games/flare-game$ git fetch --depth=1 > remote: Counting objects: 2735, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2477/2477), done. > remote: Total 2735 (delta 331), reused 2401 (delta 239) > Receiving objects: 100% (2735/2735), 353.25 MiB | 53.00 KiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (331/331), done. > From https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-game > * [new branch] master -> origin/master > > Now I tried to unshallow the repo. > > ~/games/flare-game$ git fetch --unshallow > remote: Counting objects: 29729, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9191/9191), done. > Receiving objects: 46% (13271/28465), 124.33 MiB | 58.00 KiB/s > > I went to ~/games/flare-game/.git/objects/pack and saw this :- > > $ ll -h > total 396M > -r--r--r-- 1 shirish shirish 76K Aug 25 15:46 > pack-371aa15aba2c7ff036e7964ee5736125404b5dce.idx > -r--r--r-- 1 shirish shirish 354M Aug 25 15:46 > pack-371aa15aba2c7ff036e7964ee5736125404b5dce.pack > -r--r--r-- 1 shirish shirish 43M Aug 25 16:47 tmp_pack_BLnuHj > > If I remove the last tmp file and try git fsck and git gc I get the > following :- > > ~/games/flare-game$ git fsck > notice: HEAD points to an unborn branch (master) > Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done. > Checking objects: 100% (2735/2735), done. > > as well as :- > > ~/games/flare-game$ git gc > Counting objects: 2735, done. > Delta compression using up to 2 threads. > Compressing objects: 100% (2385/2385), done. > Writing objects: 100% (2735/2735), done. > Total 2735 (delta 331), reused 2735 (delta 331) > > If I now do :- > > ~/games/flare-game$ git fetch --unshallow > > Would it give me the other 100/150 MB remaining without re-downloading > the whole 350 MB again i.e. just the diff.? The repo. is supposedly > around 500/600 MB . > > What is this --unshallow argument you're using? I can't find any trace of it in the docs.
Furthermore, I think you're going about this the wrong way. If you're on an unstable connection, you're better off transferring the repo/diffs using rsync: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1400758/266875 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
