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On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:55:46 +0100, Michael wrote: |
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> Anyhow, I recall using git to sync a live ebuild -9999 from some repo |
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> and portage started downloading gigabytes of cruft. Presumably whole |
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> decades of old commits I didn't need or have space for. I subsequently |
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> discovered I had to set "EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=shallow" in make.conf, but I |
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> can't find this variable in the man page now. I suppose/hope portage |
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> using git will only download more recent commits? |
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It does, you get just the current state of the tree by default, it's just |
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orders of magnitude faster, even compared with using rsync with a local |
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mirror. And I don't have to worry abut syncing too often and upsetting |
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infra as I'm syncing from github. |
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