[Kde-scm-interest] akademy move to git bof summary

[Chani]

On July 12, 2010 17:12:28 Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> > - non-resumable checkout -> offer shipping DVD's / usb sticks
> 
> Do you perhaps mean non-resumable *clone* (a checkout is a local
> operation in git, so it's hardly likely to be interrupted unless
> there's a power failure or something).
> 
> If you do, there is a way to do this with git:
> 
> server side
>   - create a bundle file: git bundle create project.bdl --all
>   - set that single file up for resumable download (HTTP or rsync or
> whatever)
> 
> client side
>   - download that file perhaps to /tmp
>   - clone from it: git clone /tmp/project.bdl project
>   - go into the project and set the remote properly: git remote rm
> origin; git remote add origin <your.official.git.repo.url>
> 
> hope that helps; sorry if you really meant non-resumable checkout but
> IME this is a more common problem

yes, that's what was meant :)

personally I think it'd be nicest if all the user had to do was download 
something and unzip it - but I'll leave such things up to the sysadmins.