Resuming clones [LWN.net]

Resuming clones

Posted Feb 12, 2026 16:06 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: Resuming clones by Nahor
Parent article: Evolving Git for the next decade

>*Lots* of *big* stuff can happen between two tags, making each tag very heavy to download.

You can go as fine-grained as blobs. Yeah, you can still have gigabitely-sized blobs (not that I think you should).

Wait... y'all remember the time when Git repos could be accessed by Dumb HTTP, i.e. without /usr/libexec/git/git-http-backend? There's the resume support you were looking for :-p

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Resuming clones

Posted Feb 12, 2026 18:28 UTC (Thu) by brunowolff (guest, #71160) [Link]

> Wait... y'all remember the time when Git repos could be accessed by Dumb HTTP, i.e. without /usr/libexec/git/git-http-backend?

I think that still works. I recently put some git repos for openscad sources for 3d prints up on a server. I currently do pulls to get updates from the source repos I work in. I found out you need run update-server-info to update the refs or cloning won't work. I used post-update.sample as a post-merge hook to do that automatically when I do pulls. I tested cloning using http and it seems to work properly.