On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > Hi! > > When doing the 8.4-rc1, I've noticed (probably also because of the dying > disk on sourceware) that git clone is extremely slow, and furthermore when > all of us have some local snapshots, it is a waste of resources to download > everything again. Especially for the -f runs when we'll need to wait until > git tag -s asks us for a gpg password interactively. > > The following patch adds an option through which one can point the script > at a local gcc .git directory from which it can --dissociate --reference ... > during cloning to speed it up. > > Tested with the 8.4-rc1, ok for trunk and after a while release branches?
OK. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
