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

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 19:50:49 -0500

While building the package of Guix itself [0], I noticed that Savannah
can't serve cheap "shallow clones" of the commits that these packages
are based on, so users will end up doing full clones (260M on
disk):

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building /gnu/store/ma04vkl42jyr9p2nw5yzlzw61r5s2h3p-guix-1.1.0-31.1c6d985-checkout.drv...
guile: warning: failed to install locale
environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/378zjf2kgajcfd7mfr98jn5xyc5wa3qv-gzip-1.10/bin:/gnu/store/sf3rbvb6iqcphgm1afbplcs72hsywg25-tar-1.32/bin'
Initialized empty Git repository in /gnu/store/nwf2579gigc9xhnd7i82lpmja854l9fb-guix-1.1.0-31.1c6d985-checkout/.git/
error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object 1c6d98533153bc8e0e36236e7fbcf1eb5e178d26
Failed to do a shallow fetch; retrying a full fetch...
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I'm reaching out to the Savannah admins to ask them about this, and if
it has any unduly negative affects on the Savannah infrastructure.

Maybe these commits should be tagged?

[0]
That is, while building (@@ (gnu packages package-management) guix)