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

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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 using git fetch --depth=N, with increasing N. You can use git 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. The you can create clone from bundle, fix configuration, and do further fetches from official LibreOffice repository.

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