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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: bug#30428: guix git-fetch doesn't specify "--depth 1" - git clone clones a lot without any use
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:09:39 -0500

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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?

I think it's worth adding, but as an option, because there are Git
server implementations, like JGit, that don't support shallow cloning.

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