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

Tai-Lin Chu tailinchu at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 22:35:15 EDT 2013


1. you can still pull, so it will not be a reason to go against it

>This is also true. makepkg clones a bare repository to the SRCDEST
>directory. If this is a shallow bare repo, then clones cannot be made of
>it which is what makepkg does.

2. ... i dont think why it needs to use git clone. using cp is good enough...

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:05 PM, William Giokas <1007380 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 06:47:55PM -0700, Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
>> makepkg only needs the latest git snapshot
>> there are only 2 cases that wont work:
>> 1. revert git commit
>> 2. count # of revisions
>>
>> > Won't work as you can't clone shallow repositories, which makepkg
>> > needs to do to create the working copy for the build.
>
> This is also true. makepkg clones a bare repository to the SRCDEST
> directory. If this is a shallow bare repo, then clones cannot be made of
> it which is what makepkg does.
>
> Thanks,
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