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Re: Random idea about speeding up guix pull
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Random idea about speeding up guix pull |
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Mon, 04 Sep 2017 23:56:26 +0200 |
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Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:
> Am 04.09.2017 um 17:01 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> That’s roughly what ‘guix pull’ does nowadays, now that it uses
>> Guile-Git.
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> Does it? I only found the call to `remote-fetch` in guix/git.scm, which
> is not passed any option to.
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> The trick is to use `--depth=1` and fetch the one, expected commit, tag
> or branch-head.
Oh right, it doesn’t do that.
What it does do is maintain a cached checkout in ~/.cache/guix/pull,
which makes subsequent pulls much faster.
Does that make sense?
Ludo’.