[aur-general] please add -depth 1 to makepkg git clone

Tai-Lin Chu tailinchu at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 21:47:55 EDT 2013


makepkg only needs the latest git snapshot
there are only 2 cases that wont work:
1. revert git commit
2. count # of revisions

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Jan Alexander Steffens
<jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Tai-Lin Chu <tailinchu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1. save bandwidth
>> 2. less wait
>>
>> why not add --depth 1 :)
>
> Won't work as you can't clone shallow repositories, which makepkg
> needs to do to create the working copy for the build.


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