Re: [PATCH 1/7] guix: git: Support shallow git clones if a tag is available

[Ludovic Courtès]

Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> * guix/build/git.scm (git-fetch): Instead of cloning the remote repo, use 
>>> the
>>>   lower-level "init" / "fetch" / "checkout" operations.  This lets us make a
>>>   shallow checkout if we are checking out a tag.
>>>
>>> * guix/git-download.scm (<git-reference>): Add tag field.
>>>   (git-fetch): Support git references with tags but no commits.
>>
>> This sounds like a nice improvement.  Please move the “This lets us”
>> sentence to a comment, and drop the newline between entries.
>
> This does look like a nice improvement!  It seems like it kind of got
> dropped on the floor.  Is there still interest?

Yes!  Would you like to look into it?  :-)

Ludo’.