On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Andriy Gapon <av...@freebsd.org> wrote:

If git is interrupted with a pull/rebase/etc, I think it will continue to continue loading the metadata from where it left off. git clone is a slightly different story (several people posted that clones can't be interrupted)..

Sadly, I do see where Perry is coming from, having to deal with slow downlinks (once or twice a year I go back to rural WA state where they're very much in the digital dark ages) however, there are some major benefits which shouldn't be discounted when using a DCS.

One of the great things about FreeBSD is that it's a complete distribution. Given how many additional packages and the like that need to be downloaded on a regular basis, I would think/hope that this would be a small speedbump in the overall scheme of things -- especially because frequent incremental updates are relatively small.

Example (using the linux kernel sourcebase -- I did my last pull a 3~4 weeks ago):

$ git pull remote: Counting objects: 5052, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (949/949), done. remote: Total 3429 (delta 2733), reused 3145 (delta 2459) Receiving objects: 100% (3429/3429), 814.98 KiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (2733/2733), completed with 748 local objects. From http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 ab7e2db..9e79e3e master -> origin/master From http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 * [new tag] v3.1-rc3 -> v3.1-rc3 * [new tag] v3.1-rc4 -> v3.1-rc4 Updating ab7e2db..9e79e3e Fast-forward ... $

Thanks, -Garrett