On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Josef Wolf <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> When using git-clone over an unreliable link (say, UMTS) and the network goes >> down, git-clone deletes everything what was downloaded. When the network goes >> up again and you restart git-clone, it has to start over from the >> beginning. Then, eventually, the network goes down again, and everything is >> deleted again. >> >> Is there a way to omit the deleting step, so the second invocation would start >> where the first invocation was interrupted? > > No, because a clone is not resumable. > > The best way to obtain a repository over an unstable link is to ask > the repository owner to make a bundle file with `git bundle create > --heads --tags` and serve the file using standard HTTP or rsync, which > are resumable protocols. After you download the file, you can clone or > fetch from the bundle to initialize your local repository, and then > run git fetch to incrementally update to anything that is more recent > than the bundle's creation. If the server is running gitolite, the admin can set it up so that a bundle file is automatically created as needed (including "don't do it more than once per <duration>" logic), and serve it up over rsync using the same ssh credentials as for access to the repo itself. However, this is not particularly useful for systems with git://, although it could certainly be *adapted* for http access. [Documentation is inline, in src/commands/rsync, for people who wish to know.] -- Sitaram -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html