https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147161
Bug ID: 147161
Summary: [LODE] Consider cloning core/ repo with less history
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: easyHack
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Git clone on core/ brings full core/ history and is several GBytes large. Takes
time to download.
New developers, especially developers that wants to try LibreOffice
development/build are often discouraged in front of very long download times.
Adding "--depth=NN" or "--shallow-since=<date>" to LODE script can reduce the
download times for the newcomer.
--- ESC minutes of 2022-02-02 ----
+ LODE improvements (ohallot)
+ 'git clone' of core/ brings full core/ history and is >Gbytes
+ same (and worse) for translations/
+ 12 hours for Olivier
+ can we amend with '--depth=NN' to shorten download times? (OH)
+ easier for dev newbies
+ NN=100 allows reducing the core.git size to <1GB
+ need advise from expert
+ certainly makes sense for submodules (Cloph)
+ less so for core.git if you want to switch branches
+ https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ solves the "intrerrupted at
99%" problem (Miklos)
+ translations.git is the real problem: 8GB (Eike)
+ core.git 2.7GB
+ translation updates download took 2 hours the last time tried
+ think it's a mix of problems (Thorsten)
+ for non-EU, github is much faster to clone from
+ in EU, grabbing the tarballs is perhaps the quickest
+ maybe mirror that?
+ maybe lode.git should default to cloning translations.git in a
shallow way?
+ would solve this by building in the cloud (Hossein)
+ e.g. github codespace, with visual studio code
+ build is done remotely, but vs code runs locally
+ Good for people with slow connection and slow computers
+ if you stick to the default options, you don't get translations.git
(Stephan)
+ would like to make it easy to do a shallow clone of submodules (Olivier)
AI: file a bug / easy hack on this (Olivier)
+ maybe we could make it the default for submodules (Cloph)
+ can we still opt in to get the full history? (Stephan)
+ think so (Miklos)
AI: enable shallow clone for submodules by default (Cloph)
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