Sure and I see how using a lot of small git repos, as opposed to one large repo, could be beneficial. But for established code bases this is often not the case.
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:01 PM, David Gayman <qbd...@vt.edu> wrote: > Nice, I wasn't aware of shallow or reference clones. This could be helpful. > > One more note: The jenkins server is set up as a web server to the outside > world. Our build machines are not exposed as servers. For security reasons > no source code is allowed on the jenkins server; but it would be preferable > to have this machine be in charge of running all builds. This makes sense > to me from an organization standpoint, and the builds can be pretty > resource-intensive so why not consolidate the build processes to run on the > server. > > In this specific case, jenkins breaks. My server cannot both run all > builds, and not clone the repository. (I work around this fine, it is just > a convenience item for now, but doesn't make sense to me). > > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:28 PM, teilo <teilo+goo...@teilo.net> wrote: > >> Sounds like you want a "shallow clone" rather than a full one. you have >> thus option on the git plugin for about a year. >> That way you won't have all of the history for the clone and hence less >> disk space and network traffic is required. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-users/IwgQSKqrC6g/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
