Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> If you clone a repository, and the connection drops, the next attempt
> will have to start from scratch. This can add significant time and
> expense if you're on a low-bandwidth or metered connection trying to
> clone something like Linux.
For this particular issue, your friendly k.org administrator already
has a solution. Torvalds/linux.git is made into a bundle weekly
with
$ git bundle create clone.bundle --all
and the result placed on k.org CDN. So low-bandwidth cloners can
grab it over resumable http, clone from the bundle, and then fill
the most recent part by fetching from k.org already.
The tooling to allow this kind of "bundle" (and possibly other forms
of "CDN offload" material) transparently used by "git clone" was the
proposal by Shawn Pearce mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
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