Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switched from rsync to git, now emerge --sync fails

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:50:59 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 2:50 PM Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> Is there some reason it should default
> >> to doing unlimited depth fetch operations?
> >
> > If all you want is a repo, no reason to set the depth higher.
>
> Then a default of 1 seems like the obvious "right" answer.
> Unfortunately, it defaults to "unlimited" according to
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/repos.conf
>
>   sync-depth
>
>     Specifies sync depth to use for DVCS repositories. If set to 0,
>     the depth is unlimited. Defaults to 0.
>
> > If you want to see the history then you'll want it all.
>
> Apparently, that's the default. Without any sync-depth setting the
> fetch was stalling and then timing out after 60s. With sync-depth=1,
> the fetch completed in about 1s.

I have it set to 8 here, for no reason I can remember. Is there a disadvantage 
in that?

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Regards,
Peter.