Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience

[Craig Schlenter <craig@codefountain.com>]

On 11 Feb 2006, at 7:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
[snip]
> The real improvement, independent of this client-side patch,
> would be to reuse recently generated packs, but that needs
> writable cache directory on the server side.

Speaking of improvements, I've noticed that my attempts to track
the 2.6 kernel via the git protocol result in inefficiencies from time
to time when the connection hangs or is terminated when my
flakey wireless link goes down. When I restart the pull, the data
that has already been downloaded is lost and things start from
scratch which is painful if it's a big update.

It would be nice if the "partial pack" or whatever that has been
downloaded at the time of the breakage could be re-used and
things could start "from that point onwards" or the bits that were
already received could be unpacked. Comments?

Thank you,

--Craig