On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 09:57:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > My guess is that the sweet spots are --depth=1 and a full checkout, it's > not generally possible to tell which a given package needs in advance (in > other words, it's best handled as a configuration option), and it's > probably not worth the effort to mess around with any intermediate depth. > I suspect we'll find that the vast majority of packages work fine with > --depth=1, and the remaining cases should just use a full checkout to > avoid creating fragile assumptions that may work today and break tomorrow.
Could --shallow-since= (one month ago, or one year ago) be another possible thing to consider? Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/634F4BD1E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org>
