Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH git-r3 07/10] Support shallow clones.

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-02-26, o godz. 07:39:51
Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@×××××.ca> napisał(a):

> On 26/02/14 06:59 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Implementation-wise 'shallow' mode differs only when starting a new
> > branch. In that case, '--depth 1' is used to avoid fetching earlier
> > commits. Further updates are done through plain 'git fetch'.
>
> So this fetches all a..b commits. If the package hasn't been updated in
> a while, wouldn't this be less efficient than a new clone?

In a few rare cases, yes, that could happen. Though we can't really
estimate or guess that :).

If user suspects that, he can always remove the local repository
and let the eclass re-fetch it. I doubt we can do more than that.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny