Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.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 15:50:19
Message-Id: 2975190.MQFlB7aC7R@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting git downloading the whole server farm and yet some by Rasmus Thomsen
1 On Friday 07 Jul 2017 05:28:25 Rasmus Thomsen wrote:
2 > I guess you could add "EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=shallow" to your make.conf, that way
3 > you don't have to download the whole repo with all of its commit history.
4 >
5 > Regards,
6 > Rasmus
7
8 Thanks! I will try this, but I am surprised it is not the default. For two
9 packages I think I had to download the best part of 1GB of unneeded (by me)
10 cruft, which I will never look at or use. I mean, there must be a cleverer
11 way of emerging a package without mirroring a complete project's history ...
12 O_O
13
14 --
15 Regards,
16 Mick

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