Re: resumable git clone
Re: resumable git clone
Posted Jan 28, 2016 11:57 UTC (Thu) by johill (subscriber, #25196)In reply to: Re: resumable git clone by jnareb
Parent article: A change of maintainership for Mercurial
Yeah but viro's point was that if you have the partial packfile, and the download gets interrupted, you can index it, see which objects you actually have in there (some/many might be corrupt, but the check is trivial), and then do another fetch - now negotiating a download where you already have more objects.
I don't immediately see where that breaks down, even looking at the packfile format.
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