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

[William Giokas]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 12:26:14PM -0700, Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
> @dave
> I still cannot find any info regarding why we should not use depth 1.
> do you mind pasting the link here?
> thanks.

https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2012-March.txt

Now curl and grep are your friends...

> 
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Tai-Lin Chu <tailinchu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ...what are you trying to test?
> >
> >
> > Probably trying to replicate what makepkg does to show you why cp doesn't
> > work.
> >
> >
> >>  mkdir -p /tmp/dumb/
> >>   pushd /tmp/dumb/
> >>   echo "==> Cloning into a bare repository..."
> >>   git clone --verbose git://github.com/falconindy/cower.git barerepo
> >>   echo "==> Creating copy of this repo using cp..."
> >>   cp -r -a /tmp/dumb/barerepo /tmp/dumb/barecp
> >>   echo "==> Done"
> >>   echo "==> Creating copy of this repo using git clone..."
> >>   git clone --verbose /tmp/dumb/barerepo barerepocopy
> >>   echo "==> Done"
> >>
> >> test this. of course --bare will give you different result...
> >>
> >
> > And this is what makepkg uses so that the base repo takes up less space on
> > disk and the tree doesn't need to be calculated.
> >
> >
> >> ok here is a normal process that i mentioned:
> >>
> >> git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/falconindy/cower.git test
> >> cp -a -r test test2
> >> // build with test2
> >> rm -rf test2
> >
> >
> > Please go back and search the pacman-dev list for why we aren't doing this
> > -- it's clear that you posted the suggestion here before doing any amount
> > of investigation into this. You aren't the first to suggest this, and you
> > unfortunately won't be the last.
> >
> >

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