> -----Original Message----- > From: Josef Wolf > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 6:23 > > 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.... I am using the mythical --resume, where it would fetch packs and indexes. > > [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. That is kind of the point. It should be possible. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. -- 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