On 29/07/17 17:44, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> Given that we are talking about repositories which do not use tags, we
> could specify --depth=1 when cloning to get a shallow clone, i.e. only
> the latest commit. That saves bandwidth and disk space, but has the
> downside that we cannot do any additional validation, i.e. we can’t
> detect if upstream ever starts using tags — unfortunately, that is a
> plausible scenario, so I would suggest doing a full clone.
As a data point, I wrote a script a while ago to do exactly this
locally. I used the shallow clone on a temporary directory:
backticks("git", "clone", "--quiet", "--bare", "--depth=1", $url,
$dest);
my $commit_data = backticks("git", "--git-dir=$dest", "log", "-1",
"--date=format:%Y%m%d", "--format=%h %cd");
chomp($commit_data);
$commit_data =~ /^([0-9a-z]{7}) ([0-9]{8})$/m
or die("Invalid git response: $commit_data");
return ($1, $2);
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Martín Ferrari (Tincho)
