Hi I recently came across this closed feature request for a way to perform a shallow clone with makepkg. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52957 The closing comment was: Closed by Andrew Gregory (andrewgregory) Monday, 13 February 2017, 17:29 GMT-9 Reason for closing: Won't implement Additional comments about closing: This has been rejected numerous times: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Use r:Apg#makepkg:_shallow_git_clones Which provides a now dead link. Would anyone in the know be willing to explain why this feature is considered outside the scope of makepkg? Clearly if the developers aren't interested in the feature, well then they just won't want to support it. But if there is some rationale behind this I am curious about it. On one hand this is pure curiosity, but on the other hand, I use makepkg and the Arch packaging system multiple times per week so I like to understand the design and the intent. Thank you! Adam Levy (alaskanarcher)