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Re: Heads-up: ‘guix pull’ now uses Guile-Git


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Heads-up: ‘guix pull’ now uses Guile-Git
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 01:15:19 +0200
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Until now ‘guix pull’ would fetch a ~13 MiB snapshot of our Git
> repository when you invoke it.  This is no longer the case (at last!)
> with a change that makes it use Guile-Git (bindings to libgit2)

I should point out that this uses a cached Git checkout under
~/.cache/guix/pull, thanks to the (guix git) module that Mathieu
Othacehe wrote.

So the first time you run ‘guix pull’, it clones the whole repo, and
after that it simply does the equivalent of ‘git pull’.  Better than
downloading the whole snapshot every time.  :-)

Ludo’.



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