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taro
taro

Reputation: 5832

Git clone hangs - is there a way to continue cloning?

Sometimes my git clone command hangs:

git clone -v [email protected]:user/repo.git
Cloning into repo...
remote: Counting objects: 105350, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (28919/28919), done.
Receiving objects:  13% (14481/105350), 6.84 MiB | 46 KiB/s

There is no progress for ten minutes.

Is there any way to continue cloning using a partially cloned repository if I stop the current process?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 15310

Answers (1)

kardan
kardan

Reputation: 106

As of now (git version 1.7.10.4) this is not supported yet.

You can read why the developers disagreed on how to implement. There were debates in 2009 an 2011 but no implementation so far as this seems to be tough.

It could be so easy (but it unfortunately is not):

git clone --continue

As one knows: Questions or comments for the Git community can be sent to the mailing list by using the email address [email protected]. Bug reports should be sent to this mailing list. Just go ahead and ask there again :)

Git does not support resumable clones. That feature, it turns out, is pretty tricky to implement properly. One workaround is to download a bundle over http and then fetch the remaining bits and pieces with git. But many repository admins do not provide bundles for you to download. This service aims to fill that gap: give us the URL to a repository and we'll create a bundle which you can download through http. [ bundler.caurea.org ]

I tried this for qtmoko.git and looks works quite well. Another option is to ask upstream/github to implement "git bundle", there are howtos (How to use git-bundle for keeping development in sync?) for this as well.

Upvotes: 9

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