[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 16035 - rob - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: build-support build-support/fetchgit top-level

[Marc Weber]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:30:14PM +0200, Nicolas Pierron wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 14:48, Rob Vermaas<rob.vermaas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Log:
> >  * fetchgit and nix-prefetch-git
> 
> I've tried that a while ago, for swi-prolog, but I've left such things
> because it takes much longer to clone the entire repository than
> downloading the last tarball.  Moreover, the system cannot re-use the
> prefect repository to incrementally update the working copy with a
> "git pull".  So I don't see any advantage expect if some project are
> not providing any other way to download their sources.

I fixed it making git using --depth 1. See examples here:
http://osdir.com/ml/git/2009-02/msg02816.html

Marc Weber