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Bug 360319 - please add support bundle files
Summary: please add support bundle files
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: JGit
Classification: Technology
Component: JGit (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Reported: 2011-10-08 10:13 EDT by R Shapiro CLA
Modified: 2017-01-20 02:58 EST (History)
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Description R Shapiro CLA 2011-10-08 10:13:36 EDT 
One of the advantages of Git is that it can be used in secure labs on machines with no access to the internet.  Git already includes a mechanism for keeping repositories on such machines up to date: bundle files.  A bundle can be created on a host that does have a net access, transferred to the offline hosts via sneaker-net, and used there as a pull target. 

Unfortunately jgit, and therefore egit, doesn't yet support this kind of pull.  Similarly, the creation of bundle files doesn't appear to be supported. For sure it isn't  in egit,

Adding support for bundles would make jgit/egit useful in a wider range of contexts than it is now.
Comment 1 Jason Pyeron CLA 2012-09-06 16:34:31 EDT 
This can be assigned to me.