Stalled git cloning with large repository

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When cloning a large repo stalls, hitting Ctrl+c cleans what been downloaded, and process needs re-start.

Is there a way to recover or continue from already downloaded files during cloning? Please point me to an archive url if solution exists. (though I continue to search through them as I email this)

Can there be something like: git clone --use-method=rsync

posted Aug 29, 2013 by Sanketi Garg

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No, sadly. The pack sent for a clone is generated dynamically, so there's no easy way to support the equivalent of an HTTP Range request to resume. Someone might implement an appropriate protocol extension
to tackle this (e.g., peff's seed-with-clone.bundle hack) some day, but for now it doesn't exist.

What you *can* do today is create a bundle from the large repo somewhere with a reliable connection and then grab that using a resumable transport such as HTTP. A kind person made a service to do that.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181380

answer Aug 29, 2013 by Mandeep Sehgal

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