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How to complete a git clone for a big project on an unstable connection?

Asked 2010-10-17T19:22:34.733
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I am trying to git clone the LibreOffice codebase, but at the moment I have an internet connection of about 300kbps and it's just anything but stable. I can get the connection back any moment, but then the git clone process already stopped working, and no way to get it running again. Is there some way to have a more failure-resistant git clone download?

One option I considered myself is to download someone else's .git directory, but that is overly dependent of others and doesn't seem like the best possible solution to me.

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This problem bit me too. In my case there is a work-around. It may or may not apply in your case.

I'm using a mobile phone sometimes to initiate git operations on a remote system. If my wi-fi breaks of course the session ends and git drops the whole clone operation without recovering. But since the internet connection from my remote system to the git master is solid there's no need for the clone to stop. All I need is the commonsense to detach the clone from the terminal session. This can be done by using screen/tmux or nohup/daemon. So it's a liveware malfunction in my case.

answered 2012-07-14T16:47:32.293

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