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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Two solutions (or rather workarounds) that come to mind are:
Use shallow clone i.e.
git clone --depth=1, then deepen this clone usinggit fetch --depth=N, with increasing N. You can usegit fetch --unshallow(since 1.8.0.3) to download all remaining revisions.Ask somebody to bundle up to some tagged release (see git-bundle(1) manpage). The bundle itself is an ordinary file, which you can download any way, via HTTP/FTP with resume support, via BitTorrent, via rsync, etc. Then you can create clone from bundle, fix configuration, and do further fetches from official LibreOffice repository.