Subject: Re: Stalled git cloning and possible solutions

From: "V.Krishn" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 03:05:10 +0530

On Friday, August 30, 2013 02:40:34 AM you wrote:
> V.Krishn wrote:
> > Quite sometimes 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 ?
> 
> 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.

This is what I tried but then realized something more is needed:

During stalled clone avoid  Ctrl+c. 
1. Copy the content .i.e .git folder some other place.
2. cd <new dir>
3. git config fetch.unpackLimit 999999
4. git config transfer.unpackLimit 999999
5. cat .git/config #to see if config went ok
 
6. recover process:
 git unpack-objects -r --strict <.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_0mSPsc

THEN... hopefully thought following should do the trick
 git pull
 OR
 git-fetch-pack
 OR
 git repack + git pull

but then something more is needed.... :)
like index/map file... etc for it work.

> 
> 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

Service looks nice. Hope its gets sponsors to keep it running.

-- 
Regards.
V.Krishn