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Setting milestone to P1 to ensure we decide on this before the Stack 2.0 release.
I was unaware until recently of the GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
environment variable, described at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Environment-Variables. IIUC, we can set this environment variable to a shared directory inside the pantry
directory, and cache repository information across usages.
Advantages:
- Don't need to reclone the entire history of a repo when switching to a slightly later commit
- The current inefficiency of using multiple subdirectories from a single repo will mostly disappear
Disadvantages:
- Adds lots of additional storage
The disadvantage can be addressed with a future feature of some gc
command to Stack, which is actually the topic of a likely GSoC project.