Re: git bundler service

Tomas Carnecky [off-list ref] writes:

I do a fair amount of end-user support in our official IRC channel and
every now and then someone with a really slow or unreliable internet
connection stumbles over the fact that git can't resume clones. In the
past I would real quick clone the repo and make a bundle for them (if
the repo was public). Now I made a service out of it:
https://bundler.caurea.org/. The site is really simple: you enter a
git url and after a while you'll be able to download the
bundle.

Interesting, as I was talking with others on a related solution to a
similar issue of priming the well for large clones.

The basic idea is to allow a site automatically to redirect fresh-clone
clients to a URL to HTTP reachable mirror network, and force them to grab
a bundle, extract it and then re-contact the server for only incremental
updates relative to the bundle (and of course that exchange would happen
inside the updated client without end-user intervention).