[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: git-clone with --bare instead of --mirror

[Johannes Löthberg]

On 04/11, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
>Since sites like GitHub stores a ref for every pull request under the
>refs/pull/ namespace, --mirror will pull down the history that has been
>part of every pull request, even after a someone has for example run
>git-filter-branch on it to get some big binaries out of the history,
>which sometimes blows the repository size and the time to clone it up by
>a very large factor.
>
>Using --bare solves this as it only pulls down branches and tags, and
>all makepkg needs is a bare repository.
>

For an example of this try to clone https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod.git 
with --mirror and then --bare and compare the clone time and repository 
size. ('Too Long; Didn’t Clone': --mirror is 323M and --bare is 32M, 
with the former taking minutes and the second seconds.)
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