From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>,
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: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:08:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EADCB7A1-BAB9-449C-B7CD-6BF0194EB0F7@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180213142258.GA18012@jasmine.lan>
On February 13, 2018 3:22:58 PM GMT+01:00, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:59:50PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
>>
>> > I think it's worth adding, but as an option, because there are Git
>> > server implementations, like JGit, that don't support shallow
>cloning.
>>
>> Thanks for that! I didn't consider that before...
>>
>> Possible patch (do you know such servers and can test whether they
>still work?):
>
>I think that Google's public-facing Git servers use JGit. So, perhaps
>try shallow cloning Chromium and see if it works.
"libvpx" in Guix uses Chromiums git infrastructure and is fairly small.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-13 17:11 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
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 [this message]
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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