Description: sholland.org
Posted: 2021-04-24
A while back, I ran into a problem downloading a vendor's Board Support Package (BSP) from their public GitLab instance. This git repository included the source code for Android and Linux, which is what I was interested in. It also included the toolchain package used by the vendor to compile that source code, as well as some prebuilt firmware binaries. In all, there were about 11 GiB of files.
The problem was that every time I tried to clone this repository, my HTTP connection was reset after exactly 1 GiB had been transferred: