From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Random idea about speeding up guix pull Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:28:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87lglqzzdc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a82ay0c7.fsf@gnu.org> <6a936a81-683b-6ae3-cabc-79588a97194f@crazy-compilers.com> <87r2vmgmb9.fsf@gnu.org> <216b2dc5-efa3-d052-9f68-7d1792cc98ec@crazy-compilers.com> <87d175qkoe.fsf@gnu.org> <74f2041b-1532-b421-0fa2-288055125aa2@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpsAw-0006Qu-O1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 04:28:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpsAs-0001IL-1Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 04:28:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <74f2041b-1532-b421-0fa2-288055125aa2@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:51:18 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel Hartmut Goebel skribis: > Am 05.09.2017 um 16:33 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: >> The problem is that libgit2 doesn=E2=80=99t support shallow clones, and = it=E2=80=99s >> unclear whether it will support it in the future: > > Maybe I'm wrong, but to my understanding fetching a single branch/tag is > not a "shallow clone", isn't it? I think it is, in the sense that just a subset of the Git object graph is fetched, but I=E2=80=99m not 100% sure about the terminology. Ludo=E2=80=99.