Subject: bug#30428: closed (Re: bug#30428: guix git-fetch doesn't specify "--depth 1" - git clone clones a lot without any use)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 20:49:02 +0000

Your bug report

#30428: guix git-fetch doesn't specify "--depth 1" - git clone clones a lot without any use

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#30428: guix git-fetch doesn't specify "--depth 1" - git clone clones a lot without any use
From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 16:48:10 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 01:16:41AM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> git-fetch doesn't allow specifying "--depth 1".
> 
> That means the repo clones are needlessly large.
> 
> Since in packages we only need one specific commit anyhow why do we fetch
> all the other commits?

This was fixed in 329dabe13bf98b899b907b45565434c5140804f5. Closing.

Subject: guix git-fetch doesn't specify "--depth 1" - git clone clones a lot without any use
From: Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 01:16:41 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

git-fetch doesn't allow specifying "--depth 1".

That means the repo clones are needlessly large.

Since in packages we only need one specific commit anyhow why do we fetch
all the other commits?