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.