FreeBSD Git Repository Bundles

[Xin Li]

On 12/30/20 01:59, Li-Wen Hsu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 15:15 Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'm currently publishing these bundles to freefall until I get yelled
>> at or until it's replaced by some official service,
> 
> 
> I also received suggestions of providing bundles. But after discussing with
> the people have this idea, we found that it’s more useful when the bundles
> are distributed through CDN and this is not our current case.
> 
> If people with limited internet connection find bundles are useful for
> them, please let me know, I am happy to provide bundles through our mirror
> servers and seeking other better way to serve the bundle files.

Yes, please.

I initially only considered the performance benefits (it's cheaper for
the git server when using clone bundles are used in terms of CPU), but
the ability to resume downloads is also very useful for users whose
Internet connectivity is not reliable.

Cheers,

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