Re: Has there been any discussion about resumable clones recently ?
On 09/20/2013 04:48 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Hi all, > First of all a big thank you to all for making git. With it being fast > and cheap (in relation to bandwidth and sizes for subsequent checkouts > as well as CPU usage) . Please CC me if somebody does answer this mail > as I'm not subscribed to the list. > > The thing I have been failures number of times while trying to clone a > large repo. The only solution it seems is to ask somebody to make a > git-bundle and get that bundle via wget or rsync and then unbundle it Just want to mention that if the server is running gitolite, the admin can set things up so that this is easy and painless, either for all repos or just some specific ones. Such repos can then be cloned like this: rsync -P git@host:repo.bundle . # downloads a file called ".bundle"; repeat as # needed till the whole thing is downloaded git clone repo.bundle repo cd repo git remote set-url origin git@host:repo git fetch origin# and maybe git pull, etc. to freshen the clone (yes, I know this is not really a substitute for resumable clone; call it a stop-gap until that happens!) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Has there been any discussion about resumable clones recently ?
Hi all, First of all a big thank you to all for making git. With it being fast and cheap (in relation to bandwidth and sizes for subsequent checkouts as well as CPU usage) . Please CC me if somebody does answer this mail as I'm not subscribed to the list. The thing I have been failures number of times while trying to clone a large repo. The only solution it seems is to ask somebody to make a git-bundle and get that bundle via wget or rsync and then unbundle it and then hopefully just sync it. The other way is to pray and hope that somehow git clones ends in a success. Somebody told me that there is/was some recent discussion on getting something like :- $ git clone --continue which is/would be very similar to how wget works so you can continue the large file download if the server supports resuming. Is something similar being worked upon or discussed upon ? If yes, please point me out to the discussion as it would be very beneficial to people like me who have unstable network connection. If not, then sorry to take your time. in gratitude. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
