From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Subject: bug#30428: guix git-fetch doesn't specify "--depth 1" - git clone
	clones a lot without any use
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 01:16:41 +0100
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git-fetch doesn't allow specifying "--depth 1".

That means the repo clones are needlessly large.

Since in packages we only need one specific commit anyhow why do we fetch
all the other commits?