Re: [PATCH 1/7] guix: git: Support shallow git clones if a tag is available

[Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>]

Hi,

On Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:30, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>
>>> Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> skribis:
>>>
>>>> * guix/build/git.scm (git-fetch): Instead of cloning the remote repo, use the
>>>>   lower-level "init" / "fetch" / "checkout" operations.  This lets us make a
>>>>   shallow checkout if we are checking out a tag.
>>>>
>>>> * guix/git-download.scm (<git-reference>): Add tag field.
>>>>   (git-fetch): Support git references with tags but no commits.
>>>
>>> This sounds like a nice improvement.  Please move the “This lets us”
>>> sentence to a comment, and drop the newline between entries.
>>
>> This does look like a nice improvement!  It seems like it kind of got
>> dropped on the floor.  Is there still interest?
>
> Yes!  Would you like to look into it?  :-)

I can do it :)  I just rebased and updated after a couple months, and so
I have the patch fresh :)  Sorry for the delay; I am a creature of habit
and using Guix on the machine with that patch broke all my habits :P

Andy