On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 16:05:49 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 4:24 AM, John Covici <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, I changed to a git repository and did a git whatchanged, but in > > the directory I was looking at namely sys-kernel/dracut, I just got a > > generated commit from about the time I created the repository and none > > of the previous history. Maybe from now on I will get something > > better. > > > > If you obtained your repository by editing repos.conf then you also > need to set sync-depth = 0 if you want to actually get any history. > By default portage will not pull any history when syncing git. I'm > not sure if it will fetch the old history or not if you add it after > the initial sync. The default is intended to keep the size down while > allowing more efficient syncs (git is more efficient than rsync if you > are doing frequent updates). > > If you just do a git clone then you should get everything by default.
Well, clone-depth = 0 gave me a syntax error and it said in the
portage manpage
clone-depth
Specifies
clone
depth
to use
for
DVCS
repositories. Defaults
to 1
(only
the
newest
commit). If
set to
0, the
depth
is
unlimited.
So, maybe I have to do just a git clone by hand?
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