Moin Andy, On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Andy Walls wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 09:10 +0100, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > > > BTW: I just made a clone of the git-tree - 365MB *ouff*. > > Assuming 53.333 kbps download speed, 0% overhead, no compression: > > 365 MiB * 2^20 bytes/MiB * 8 bits/byte / 53333 bits/sec / 3600 sec/hr = > 15.95 hours > > :( Wow, that's about twice as fast as my first clone of the various SCM trees, mostly with CVSup, many years ago, after leaving the world of high-speedLand. Actually, when I made my first git kernel clone, I think it was less than 100MB yet still elicited the same astoundment I see now. And basically I did dial in and let all the checkouts run overnight from whichever provider was affordable, back when the per-minute costs were ten to 100 times what I see today. Although many other BSD full trees were updates of changes that had then occurred in five years, and CVSup/rsync and the like can do the work in bits and pieces. > Can git resume aborted clones? It could be many weeks before I have a > 20 hour window where I don't have to use my land line phone for voice... Unfortunately, my experience has been no, both in initial checkouts, and in large updates -- if I go for a month without pulling Linus' latest changes, with the poor connectivity I have, sometimes it will take three or four attempts until I can get all those handful of megabytes of chunks intact at once. Worse is if your ISP has you on a configuration that doesn't preserve your IP for the duration of your download, changing it every few minutes, or hours, as is a common practice to keep customers from running servers or doing anything useful. The net was made for surfing, not downloading, dammit. I am writing from the point of view of a beginner who knows nothing about the advantages of `git' or `hg' or `svn' and friends and who only wants to clone the entire development tree locally for off-line work with access to any point of development, and as such I don't know of any possible expert flags like ``--partial'' or something to instruct `git' not to discard any complete or partial chunks. In fact, I don't remember if I downloaded the original kernel in any special way, such as a .tbz file to be used as a base and then updated from there. So don't take my word as gospel. barry bouwsma in the middle of an aborted-after-four-hours update of FreeBSD during the bandwidth-hungry ``fixup'' process that thanks to their accursed move to `svn' seems to take much longer than just pulling the deltas alone, but luckily which I can resume once I get ``better'' connectivity and not lose much of anything. grumble mumble old fart grumble -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
