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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 02/02: gnu: libical: Add upstream patch to preserve API compatibility.
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:16:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ1n9US+cKGHGL94c+ojM+rjCvK=n==TqzUKXKCtw76-SQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sle139n.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 22:44, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:


> > I wonder if it's feasible to use Guile-Git to generate the patches
> > instead, at the expense of having to download the entire repository
> > for the purpose of extracting one or more (substitutable) patches.
>
> Good question.  We could have a lowerable <git-commit> data type that
> would (1) clone the repo, and (2) dump the raw (?) commit to #$output.
> It’s happening on the build side, like ‘git-fetch’, so it could use Git
> directly, which supports shallow clones.

I do not know if it makes sense but Git provides now a (experimental)
partial download/clone.

https://git-scm.com/docs/partial-clone


All the best,
simon

      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-10  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2020-02-04 22:31   ` 02/02: gnu: libical: Add upstream patch to preserve API compatibility Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-05 21:29     ` Marius Bakke
2020-02-07 21:44       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-10  8:16         ` zimoun [this message]

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