Ability to pass options to clone? #295
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Wondering if it's possible to pass options to the clone action, specifically --recursive and --depth=1
Here's what I've got:
repo = Rugged::Repository.clone_at @git_url, @source, { :branch => @git_ref, :recursive => true, :depth => 1 }Metadata
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arrbee commentedon Dec 2, 2013
@benbalter Currently, the underlying libgit2 code doesn't support making shallow clones nor does it support recursive submodule updates. Using the submodule APIs, it would probably be possible to implement the equivalent of
--recursivebut I don't think the necessary APIs are currently available in Rugged. I'm pretty sure there is no way to do a shallow clone at all without changes to the libgit2.benbalter commentedon Dec 3, 2013
Le sad. Thanks for the prompt response.
carlosmn commentedon Dec 3, 2013
Shallow fetches/clones are a mess and still a hack. There is currently an attempt at making them better-defined, but the odd repos that result are a mess and still have many limitations even with git-core.
While not as fast to type, you do have a programming language available, which makes automatic recursive submodule initialisation less of an advantage. It's probably enough of a promiment git-core feature that it will have to be implemented at some point.
arrbee commentedon Dec 3, 2013
Thanks for clarifying @carlosmn - you're right (as always). I do have it on my TODO list to add recursive submodule support to libgit2 checkout and clone, but it hasn't been too high up there. Still, probably a good thing to get to and not too hard, I think.
ben commentedon Dec 3, 2013
Better shallow-repo support is on my list, but the concepts are tangled up with alternates and grafts, and it could get a little hairy.
dideler commentedon Feb 17, 2016
FWIW, related libgit2 issue is libgit2/libgit2#3058
kjetilho commentedon Dec 27, 2023
libgit2 added shallow support in version 1.7.0 (July 2023)
benbalter commentedon Dec 28, 2023
Thanks for updating this ancient issue. Marking as resolved.
kjetilho commentedon Dec 28, 2023
hmm, but I don't see how Rugged allows me to pass a value for depth to fetch?
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