I guess you could add "EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=shallow" to your make.conf, that way you don't have to download the whole repo with all of its commit history.
Regards, Rasmus -------- Original Message -------- On 7 Jul 2017, 10:24, Mick wrote: > I am trying to emerge a package from a git repository but the amount being > downloaded strikes as unreasonable, because if not anything else I don't have > this amount of space available on the current partition: > >>>> Emerging (1 of 2) dev-libs/efl-9999::bar >>>> Unpacking source... > Cloning into bare repository '/usr/portage/distfiles/egit-src/efl.git'... > remote: Counting objects: 515506, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (82268/82268), done. > Receiving objects: 39% (201698/515506), 99.29 MiB | 199.00 KiB/s > > I can recall such a problem with CVS. Is there a way I could restrict this > huge download of stuff I do not need or want on my PC down to a single > package? > -- > Regards, > Mick
