On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:06:35PM +0000, Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US) wrote: > Yes, but it is those awfully slow connections (slower that the looping > issue) which happen to always drop while cloning from our office. And the > round trip should be mitigated by http-keep-alives. [ ... ] > But, again if the connection drops, we have already lost the delta > advantage. I would think the scenario would go like this: > > git clone url://blah/blah > [fail] > cd blah > git clone --resume #uses normal methods.... > [fail] > while ! git clone --resume --HitItWithAStick > > replace clone with fetch for that use case too Last time I checked, cloning could not be resumed: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-clone-and-unreliable-links-td7570652.html If you're on a slow/unreliable link, you've lost. :-( :-( :-( -- Josef Wolf jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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