[darcs-users] Is it possible to restart an interrupted "darcs get" via HTTP?

[Edwin Thomson]

Tommy Pettersson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:11:41PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> Or is there any way to bootstrap a partial repo from the 3700 patches
>> I've already downloaded? :-)
> 
> A complete Get can be substituted with a 'cp -a', so if you can
> use ftp in resume mode, or rsync or http with resume (is there
> such a thing?), or something, just to sync over the missing
> files, you're home.

To save on data transfer, you don't need to get current or working - 
once you have the patch files and inventories you can rebuild with 
repair and revert.  If the web server has autogenerated index pages for 
files, you could automate getting those with something like wget, probably.

Edwin