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A change of maintainership for Mercurial

A change of maintainership for Mercurial

Posted Jan 27, 2016 16:08 UTC (Wed) by jnareb (subscriber, #46500)
In reply to: A change of maintainership for Mercurial by error27
Parent article: A change of maintainership for Mercurial

> For me, `git clone` is really annoying because I have crap internet. It seems like it should be fixable to make `git clone` work over unreliable internet but it hasn't happened yet...

Creating *"resumable clone"* with Git "smart" protocols is not easy. It was attempted many times, and never finished.

What was done is speeding up cloning thanks to 'bitmap indexes' (on server-side), and unfortunately not formalized solution of providing "seed" bundles (which are ordinary files, and can be downloaded in a resumable way: resumable HTTP, resumable FTP, rsync, BitTorrent, etc.) under similar URL as repo (e.g. repo is at https://git.example.com/project, bundle is at https://git.example.com/project.bundle). Unfortunately http://bundler.caurea.org/ is no longer.


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