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Revert "Do not use a partial clone for caching git repositories locally" #729

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions src/bors/gitops.rs
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Expand Up @@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ impl Git {
.context("Cannot reset repository cache directory")?;
}
let repo_url = format!("https://github.com/{repository}.git");
// Note: partial clones caused all sorts of git errors and performance problems.
// So we just do a normal full clone, though still use a bare checkout
run_command(
tokio::process::Command::new(&self.git)
.kill_on_drop(true)
.arg("clone")
// --bare is used to avoid checking out the repository on disk, which is not needed
.arg("--bare")
// Treeless clone is used to avoid downloading history of all blobs and trees
.arg("--filter=tree:0")
.arg(&repo_url)
.arg(repo_path),
)
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