Follow-up Comment #3, sr #110553 (project administration): Yes, much faster than cloning. I've confirmed that the changes do work. The checkout is now under 1 minute.
Thank you! root@debian:~/gnulib-test# git -C gnulib remote add origin git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib root@debian:~/gnulib-test# time git -C gnulib fetch --depth=2 origin d271f868a8df9bbec29049d01e056481b7a1a263 remote: Counting objects: 9705, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8668/8668), done. remote: Total 9705 (delta 5051), reused 2198 (delta 1014) Receiving objects: 100% (9705/9705), 8.25 MiB | 850.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (5051/5051), done. >From git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib * branch d271f868a8df9bbec29049d01e056481b7a1a263 -> FETCH_HEAD real 0m29.022s user 0m7.136s sys 0m2.133s root@debian:~/gnulib-test# time git -C gnulib reset --hard FETCH_HEAD Updating files: 100% (9636/9636), done. HEAD is now at d271f86 lock: Fix link error with --enable-threads=pth. real 0m7.662s user 0m2.395s sys 0m4.957s _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?110553> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.nongnu.org/