On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:17:55PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> WRT the HTTP protocol, I was questioning git's ability to resume the 
> transfer of a pack in the middle if such transfer is interrupted without 
> redownloading it all. And Mike Hommey says this is actually the case.
With rsync:// it was helpful to split the pack, and resume there worked
reasonably (see my other mail about the segfault that turns up
sometimes).

More recent discussions raised the possibility of using git-bundle to
provide a more ideal initial download that they CAN resume easily, as
well as being able to move on from it.

So, from the Gentoo side right now, we're looking at this:
1. Setup git-bundle for initial downloads.
2. Disallow initial clones over git:// (allow updates ONLY)
3. Disallow git-over-http, git-over-rsync.

This also avoids the wait time with the initial clone. Just grab the
bundle with your choice of rsync or http, check it's integrity, throw it
into your repo, and update to the latest tree.

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