Subject: bug#44382: Updating the guix package triggers a full Git clone of guix.git

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:48:25 +0100

Hi,

Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I poked around a bit and found that Savannah can serve shallow clones of
> random commits, but does not allow shallow *fetching*, except for
> special things such as Git tags. We fetch instead of clone.

Weird, what’s the difference between fetch and clone technically?  I
believe commit 329dabe13bf98b899b907b45565434c5140804f5 moved to “fetch”
precisely so we could do shallow clones.

Ludo’.