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

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Message #35 received at 30428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 30428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Subject: Re: bug#30428: guix git-fetch doesn't specify "--depth 1" - git clone
 clones a lot without any use
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:53:49 +0100

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> It's already much nicer just to try the shallow commit checkout and fall back
> to the current way if it doesn't work - and it's low risk.

Oh right, I hadn’t groked that this is what your patch does.

In that case I’m all for it, it seems to be low-risk indeed.  Perhaps
leave a comment explaining that for some servers “--depth 1” won’t work
when we’re passing a commit and not a tag.

Thank you!

Ludo’.

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