How do I clone a large Git repository on an unreliable connection?

Question

I want to clone LibreOffice. From the official website, this is what\'s written:

All our source code is hosted in git:

Clone: $ git clone gi

Answer 1

The repository is accessible via the http protocol (aka dumb protocol) here: http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/core.git.

You can download everything here with wget or another download manager, and you'll have a clone of the repository. After that, you rename the directory from core.git to .git, and use the following command to tell git about the remote url:

$ git remote add remote http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/core.git
$ git reset --hard HEAD