Maybe it makes sense to use "--depth 1" on our git checkouts by default?
--Steve On 1/24/2022 12:40 PM, Roland Haas wrote: > Hello Bruno, > >> btw, why is svn still needed? I see that it is only used for >> ExternalLibraries which are anyway in a git repository (is it because of >> the particular directory structure of that repository?). > Not so much because of the directory structure but because of the > content. We use svn for the ExternalLibraries thorns, which contain a > tarball of the library (in case no copy is found on the system). > > Since git downloads the full version history (by default, and shallow, > --depth 1 checkouts do not work for us when using branches) we did not > want to use git for those (since eg the MPI ExternalLibrary repo is > ~172MB of "old" commits and ~10MB of checked out files. svn can > download a single revision more easily. > > Yours, > Roland > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/users
