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

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 30428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30428: guix git-fetch doesn't specify "--depth 1" - git
 clone clones a lot without any use
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:22:58 -0500

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:59:50PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo <at> 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.

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