On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Jason Cox <j_...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I am need of updating my fg data but am finding that the git pull fails > after a while stating that the remote end has disconnected my session. > As this an extremely large download that cannot be interrupted I am just > wasting large amounts of broadband allowance trying to do this. > > Is there a way of downloading just the head in a tar ball from a web > site?
You can use a recent git bundle that is a resumable download, and bring that up to date with a comparatively small pull afterwards. See http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_and_Git#fgdata.bundle Also, the mapserver git mirror usually has no problems with the large data. -- Csaba/Jester ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
