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From: Rasmus Thomsen <Rasmus.thomsen@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting git downloading the whole server farm and yet some
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 09:28:42
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In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Restricting git downloading the whole server farm and yet some by Mick
1 I guess you could add "EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=shallow" to your make.conf, that way you don't have to download the whole repo with all of its commit history.
2
3 Regards,
4 Rasmus
5
6 -------- Original Message --------
7 On 7 Jul 2017, 10:24, Mick wrote:
8
9 > I am trying to emerge a package from a git repository but the amount being
10 > downloaded strikes as unreasonable, because if not anything else I don't have
11 > this amount of space available on the current partition:
12 >
13 >>>> Emerging (1 of 2) dev-libs/efl-9999::bar
14 >>>> Unpacking source...
15 > Cloning into bare repository '/usr/portage/distfiles/egit-src/efl.git'...
16 > remote: Counting objects: 515506, done.
17 > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (82268/82268), done.
18 > Receiving objects: 39% (201698/515506), 99.29 MiB | 199.00 KiB/s
19 >
20 > I can recall such a problem with CVS. Is there a way I could restrict this
21 > huge download of stuff I do not need or want on my PC down to a single
22 > package?
23 > --
24 > Regards,
25 > Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting git downloading the whole server farm and yet some Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>