The reference repo is a recent copy (1 day old) of the repo. The content would be used for the build.
A build would clone from the reference repo, then fetch origin. This way the delta (1 day) is not too big. Cloning from scratch takes a long time because of the size of the repo. On Mon, May 10, 2021, 6:39 PM Sriram Narayanan <[email protected]> wrote: > What does your reference repo contain? Is the content going to be used for > the build? > > Ram > > On Tue, 11 May 2021 at 9:37 AM, HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have elastic agents so the cron route would not be feasible. >> >> I mount a reference repo as a K8s PVC. >> >> I want to do a git clone <url> --reference-repo <path to my mounted >> reference repo>. >> >> Can the git material support or be modified to accept reference repo >> paths? >> >> This is kind of a deal breaker if it can't >> >> >> On Mon, May 10, 2021, 6:31 PM Marques Lee <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hmm. Well I suppose you could git clone —bare —mirror to a known >>> location and then: >>> >>> 1) create git materials with file system paths for the url instead of >>> http/ssh >>> 2) run a cron to keep the ref repo updated >>> >>> Would that work? >>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 6:25 PM HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> My repo is too big, it can't be cloned by itself. it needs a reference >>>> repo. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to configure a reference repo ? >>>> >>>> On Mon, May 10, 2021, 6:23 PM Marques Lee <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Git materials support shallow clone. I think you need to expand the >>>>> advance tab to see the option. It’s of course in cruise-config.xml as well >>>>> as the various pipelines-as-config syntaxes. >>>>> >>>>> The workspace isn’t recloned every time either. 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