From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 30428@debbugs.gnu.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 10:09:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180212150939.GA5852@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180212011641.3deb7fd6@scratchpost.org>
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 01:16:41AM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> 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?
I think it's worth adding, but as an option, because there are Git
server implementations, like JGit, that don't support shallow cloning.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-12 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-12 0:16 bug#30428: guix git-fetch doesn't specify "--depth 1" - git clone clones a lot without any use Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-12 15:09 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2018-02-12 22:59 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-13 1:28 ` Leo Famulari
2018-02-13 14:22 ` Leo Famulari
2018-02-13 17:08 ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-13 18:08 ` Leo Famulari
2018-02-13 17:09 ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-14 13:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-18 13:38 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-18 13:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-22 20:48 ` Leo Famulari
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