Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:03:23 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r448034 - head/Mk Message-ID: <20170818130323.GA77829@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201708161250.v7GCoAZa030778@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201708161250.v7GCoAZa030778@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:50:10PM +0000, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > New Revision: 448034 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/448034 > > Log: > Add a git-clone target to clone the github repositories referenced in > ports using USE_GITHUB. What is it useful for (specifically within the ports tree) that fetching specific commit hash won't provide? Cloning the repo implies that one's intended to work on it and thus needs all the history. For an arbitrary port that one wants to build it's an overkill. Also, how feasible is to cache cloned repo (like we cache normal distfiles now)? ./danfe
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