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From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Git repos with large submodules
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 02:04:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200525020403.56f16a38@riseup.net> (raw)

Hey all!

So, I recently gave a go to packaging EDK2 on my channel, and found out
that it requires several submodules, including OpenSSL, which take up
quite a bit of space and take way longer to download than necessary.

Since I couldn't find a way to shallow-init the submodules, I added
them as separate origins and copied / symlinked them after the unpack
phase.

Is there a better way to do this? I don't see any equivalent of
--shallow-submodules in guile-git or libgit2.

I was thinking of writing a bit of Scheme to handle importing git repos
with their submodules as origins, but that feels like a rather ugly
hack.
Maybe libgit or guile-git would be the best layer to fix this at.


             reply	other threads:[~2020-05-25  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-25  0:04 raingloom [this message]
2020-05-30 21:28 ` Git repos with large submodules Marius Bakke
2020-05-31 16:32   ` Leo Famulari

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