Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] vcs0 disk filling up, /var/cache/cgit again

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:35:30AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I am also seeing a lot of cgit snapshot activity.  Across all of the
> projects.  Here is one example.
> 
>   [13/Mar/2017:12:34:45 -0400] "GET /cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz 
> HTTP/1.1" 200 11642975 "-" "GNU Guile"

This is used in Guix as part of our update mechanism.

Specifically, the command `guix pull` [0] downloads that snapshot to
accomplish something that you can consider analogous to `apt-get update`
on dpkg / apt systems.

We plan for `guix pull` to evolve to use Git directly rather than
downloading a tarball, but we aren't there yet.

[0]
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/scripts/pull.scm