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

[Tai-Lin Chu]

Thanks William. But I dont think the discussion is deep as what we
have right now.
Apparently allan miscalculates how much we can save on using shallow clone.
I tried linux/master yesterday, it is more like 600mb to 97mb.

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 4:46 PM, William Giokas <1007380 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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