On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 12:41:20AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> 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.
I finally got around to documenting this here: https://kernel.org/cloning-linux-from-a-bundle.html > 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. To reiterate, I believe that would be an awesome feature. Regards, -- Konstantin Ryabitsev Linux Foundation Collab Projects Montréal, Québec
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