On Mon, 01 Aug 2022 07:58:05 +0100, Michael wrote: > 1. It used to be the case the first time you run git it would try to > download GB of commits history and take ages to do so on a slow > connection. The solution used to be to add "EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=shallow" > in your make.conf, but I'm not sure if this is still needed (I don't > use git).
It doesn't seem to be the case, running sync with an empty portage tree gives >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/portage'... /usr/bin/git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo . % du /var/portage 608M /var/portage It did take 32s, but most of that was the Performing Global Updates stage. -- Neil Bothwick "A hundred years of forgetting and it all comes rushing back..."
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