Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 11:49:23 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:55:46 +0100, Michael wrote:
> > Anyhow, I recall using git to sync a live ebuild -9999 from some repo
> > and portage started downloading gigabytes of cruft.  Presumably whole
> > decades of old commits I didn't need or have space for.  I subsequently
> > discovered I had to set "EGIT_CLONE_TYPE=shallow" in make.conf, but I
> > can't find this variable in the man page now.  I suppose/hope portage
> > using git will only download more recent commits?
> 
> It does, you get just the current state of the tree by default, it's just
> orders of magnitude faster, even compared with using rsync with a local
> mirror. And I don't have to worry abut syncing too often and upsetting
> infra as I'm syncing from github.

I see, thanks Neil.  Does it now check sigs of downloaded data, like rsync 
does?

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