Re: GSoC resumable clone

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:41:14AM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

quoted

I think there is room for both ideas. The cached bundle idea is not just
"here, download this bundle first". It is "here, download this _other
thing_ first, which might be a bundle, another git repo, a torrent,
etc".

Fair enough. Though I wouldn't limit this to bundles. Instead I would
suggest supporting any valid Git URLs, and then extend our URL syntax
to support bundles over http://, rsync://, and torrent.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it was limited to bundles. It would
support arbitrary URLs or schemes. See this thread for some past
discussion:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/164700

If we support any URL and don't assume the URL is a bundle, you can
point traffic at kernel.org to for example grab Linus' primary
repository first, even if he doesn't have a bundle.

Exactly.

-Peff