Hello Glenn,
> I posted a v2 of the patch back in October with the requested comment
> above. I'm guessing it got missed. If you still want me to repost the
> v2 patch please let me know.
>
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-10/msg00073.html
Indeed, I missed it. Sorry
Hi Bruno,
On Wed, 05 Jan 2022 11:50:13 +0100
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
>
> In this thread, on 2021-10-24 I replied:
> > > I'm thinking of replacing the current comment with
> > > something along the lines of:
> > >
> > > Git does not support cloning by commit hash. So attempt a
Hi Glenn,
In this thread, on 2021-10-24 I replied:
> > I'm thinking of replacing the current comment with
> > something along the lines of:
> >
> > Git does not support cloning by commit hash. So attempt a shallow
> > fetch by commit hash to minimize the amount of data downloaded and
> >
Bruno Haible writes:
>> > Also, I would expect that the GNULIB_REVISION environment variable is not
>> > so frequently used, and that the more frequent use is with git submodules.
>> > Is it possible to apply the same trick to the git submodules case? Or does
>> > the use of submodules always
Hi Glenn,
> I'm thinking of replacing the current comment with
> something along the lines of:
>
> Git does not support cloning by commit hash. So attempt a shallow
> fetch by commit hash to minimize the amount of data downloaded and
> changes needed to be processed, which can drastically
Hi Bruno,
On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 00:20:32 +0200
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
>
> > The gnulib sources are large but more importantly have lots of changes. So
> > initial checkout of the repository can take a long time when network or
> > cpu resources are limited. The later is especially acute
Hi Glenn,
> The gnulib sources are large but more importantly have lots of changes. So
> initial checkout of the repository can take a long time when network or
> cpu resources are limited. The later is especially acute in a non-KVM QEMU
> virtual machine (which can take 40+ minutes compared to
On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:31:31 -0500
Glenn Washburn wrote:
> The gnulib sources are large but more importantly have lots of changes. So
> initial checkout of the repository can take a long time when network or
> cpu resources are limited. The later is especially acute in a non-KVM QEMU
> virtual
The gnulib sources are large but more importantly have lots of changes. So
initial checkout of the repository can take a long time when network or
cpu resources are limited. The later is especially acute in a non-KVM QEMU
virtual machine (which can take 40+ minutes compared to <30 seconds with
