[Nix-dev] Re: fetch<dvcs> - optimization via local mirroring.

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Michael Raskin wrote:

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> Hello.
> With fetchgit we sometimes have a problem of having to pull entire
> history over and over again. For fetchmtn I implemented possibility to
> specify local database and fetch needed revisions to it first (and only
> then to check out from it).
> I used the Monotone convention of giving branches unique names - using
> the reversed domain name prefixes, popularized by Java.
> Obviously with some encoding of source URLs into branch names that
> should be possible for some other fetchers in Nixpkgs as well. Is there
> anybody knowing those VCSes enough to do that and willing to do that?
I can try for fetchgit.

How do you deal with chroot builds? Require adding "global DB dir" to build-
chroot-dirs?

BTW, current nix-prefetch-git is MUCH more clever than fetchgit. As a 
result, they produce different results ;).