On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Björn Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> Khem Raj wrote: >>> I agree but then 1.7 GB is noticeably huge too and it will only become >>> larger in future so I don't think fetching from git will be a good solution >>> for gcc ever. >> >> Can we use shallow clones? A quick test of gcc-4.7 gave me a 308 MB tar.gz >> when cloned with --depth 1. > > I did not check if the fetcher has this support but it would be a > nice solution.
Shallow clones won't be able to support SRCREV properly, as you can only clone shallowly from HEAD, not from an arbitrary point in history, AFAIK. -- Christopher Larson _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
