On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 11:49:23 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:55:46 +0100, Michael wrote: > > Anyhow, I recall using git to sync a live ebuild -9999 from some repo > > and portage started downloading gigabytes of cruft. Presumably whole > > decades of old commits I didn't need or have space for. I subsequently > > discovered I had to set "EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=shallow" in make.conf, but I > > can't find this variable in the man page now. I suppose/hope portage > > using git will only download more recent commits? > > It does, you get just the current state of the tree by default, it's just > orders of magnitude faster, even compared with using rsync with a local > mirror. And I don't have to worry abut syncing too often and upsetting > infra as I'm syncing from github.
I see, thanks Neil. Does it now check sigs of downloaded data, like rsync does?
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