GNU bug report logs - #44382
Updating the guix package triggers a full Git clone of guix.git

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Message #11 received at 44382 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 44382 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44382: Updating the guix package triggers a full Git clone
 of guix.git
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:48:25 +0100

Hi,

Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> 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’.

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