[Buildroot] [PATCH 8/8] download: git: introduce cache feature
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Mon Apr 2 21:47:05 UTC 2018
>>>>> "Maxime" == Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com> writes:
> Now we keep the git clone that we download and generates our tarball
> from there.
> The main goal here is that if you change the version of a package (say
> Linux), instead of cloning all over again, you will simply 'git fetch'
> from the repo the missing objects, then generates the tarball again.
> This should speed the 'source' part of the build significantly.
> The drawback is that the DL_DIR will grow much larger; but time is more
> important than disk space nowadays.
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
> ---
> v4 -> v5:
> - Fix comments's content
Committed, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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