From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Tomasz Kontusz <roverorna@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Continue git clone after interruption
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:23:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090817152358.GV1033@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908171430010.4991@intel-tinevez-2-302>
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Tomasz Kontusz wrote:
>
> > is anybody working on making it possible to continue git clone after
> > interruption? It would be quite useful for people with bad internet
> > connection (I was downloading a big repo lately, and it was a bit
> > frustrating to start it over every time git stopped at ~90%).
>
> Unfortunately, we did not have enough GSoC slots for the project to allow
> restartable clones.
>
> There were discussions about how to implement this on the list, though.
Unfortunately, those of us who know how the native protocol works
can't come to an agreement on how it might be restartable. If you
really read the archives on this topic, you'll see that Nico and I
disagree about how to do this. IIRC Nico's position is, it isn't
really possible to implement a restart.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-17 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-17 11:42 Continue git clone after interruption Tomasz Kontusz
2009-08-17 12:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-17 15:23 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-08-18 5:43 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-18 6:58 ` Tomasz Kontusz
2009-08-18 17:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-18 18:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-18 20:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-18 21:02 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-18 21:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-19 15:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-19 19:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-19 19:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-19 21:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-20 0:26 ` Sam Vilain
2009-08-20 7:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-20 7:48 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-08-20 8:23 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-20 18:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-21 10:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-21 10:26 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-21 21:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-21 21:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-22 0:59 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-21 23:07 ` Sam Vilain
2009-08-22 3:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-22 5:50 ` Sam Vilain
2009-08-22 8:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-23 10:37 ` Sam Vilain
2009-08-20 22:57 ` Sam Vilain
2009-08-18 22:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-18 23:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-19 7:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-19 8:25 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-08-19 9:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-19 17:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-19 22:23 ` René Scharfe
2009-08-19 4:42 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-08-19 9:53 ` Jakub Narebski
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