Re: 02/02: gnu: libical: Add upstream patch to preserve API compatibility.

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 22:44, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:

> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:


> > I wonder if it's feasible to use Guile-Git to generate the patches
> > instead, at the expense of having to download the entire repository
> > for the purpose of extracting one or more (substitutable) patches.
>
> Good question.  We could have a lowerable <git-commit> data type that
> would (1) clone the repo, and (2) dump the raw (?) commit to #$output.
> It’s happening on the build side, like ‘git-fetch’, so it could use Git
> directly, which supports shallow clones.

I do not know if it makes sense but Git provides now a (experimental)
partial download/clone.

https://git-scm.com/docs/partial-clone


All the best,
simon