On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:10 PM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:
> Le sextidi 16 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Jan Ehrhardt a écrit : > > Because it is faster to download a snapshot and extract it than > > doing a git clone > > I suggest you consider doing a shallow clone (--depth 1). It should take > roughly the same time as getting and unpacking a snapshot. IIRC, one of the > minor perks of doing that is that the version script will give a more > useful > version tag. > At least here, Git is still slower. In addition, https://git.ffmpeg.org doesn't seem to support --depth. $ time curl https://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot.tar.bz2 | tar -jxf - real 0m10.331s user 0m2.272s sys 0m0.312s $ git clone --depth=1 https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg2 Cloning into 'ffmpeg2'... fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: protocol error: bad pack header $ time git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git ffmpeg2 real 0m17.540s user 0m1.308s sys 0m0.308s Timothy _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
