Dealing with broken connections

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 14.03.2008 21:20, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 20:46 +0100, Guido Ostkamp wrote:
>> Looking at generic large repositories like OpenSolaris I am the one who 
>> does the cloning and I don't think I can get them to provide the stuff as 
>> bundle.
>>
>> Would it for some technical reason be impossible to resume a cloning 
>> process or is it just not yet implemented at the moment?
> 
> Yes. The wire protocol streams changelog followed by manifest data
> followed by file data. This minimizes seeking and maximizes
> compression.

It might be interesting to not throw away the changelog (and maybe the
manifest data) in this case.

See also PartialClone on the wiki and some discussion at issue 1025.