Re: First guix pull is too costly

[bokr]

On +2022-06-28 14:04:52 +0600, Akib Azmain Turja wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Yesterday, I created a new user in my system.  Then I tried to install a
> package, but found that it's not the latest, although I did sudo guix
> pull before sudo guix system reconfigure.  So I tried to do guix pull,
> but it seems to clone the whole repository from scratch.  But,
> unfortunately, it never succeeds due to my faulty network connection.
> It progresses somewhat like 5%, 7%, 20%, and my connection fails, and I
> have to start again from the beginning.
> 
> Is possible to reuse the guix channel from any other user to do the
> first guix pull?  Or maybe a shallow clone?
> 
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> Akib Azmain Turja
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I'm trying to imagine help for this situation:

Does git have a feature for an entire pull like wget does for a file? E.g.,
    wget -c some_incompletely_downloaded_file

TIA to anyone who knows and tells :)
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Regards,
Bengt Richter