Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ioemu: Clone ioemu with --depth=1

[Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/11 04:00, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jean Guyader writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ioemu: Clone ioemu with 
> --depth=1"):
> > I don't think it's fair to measure things in seconds here since it's
> > very much depend on the Internet connection people are using. When
> > building tip of xen-unstable we are actually downloading 3 times as
> > much data that we actually need (9.9M instead of 29.11M).
> 
> I don't have an objection in principle to this patch, but it needs to
> be made to work properly and that's difficult.
> 
> We haven't in the past made tags for every revision that is mentioned
> in QEMU_TAG in xen-{*-testing,unstable}.hg.  In principle I guess we
> could retrospectively make such tags.  (I think it is necessary that
> "hg clone; hg up <revision>; make" should always work even if
> <revision> is very old.)
> 
> Also I'm worried that some old versions of git may not have --depth.
> 

If QEMU_TAG is or should be set most of the time there is not point
to have this feature.

Jean

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