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Shallow git clones #4938

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pradyunsg opened this issue Dec 23, 2017 · 2 comments
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Shallow git clones #4938

pradyunsg opened this issue Dec 23, 2017 · 2 comments
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auto-locked Outdated issues that have been locked by automation C: vcs pip's interaction with version control systems like git, svn and bzr type: enhancement Improvements to functionality

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pip/src/pip/_internal/vcs/git.py

Line 187 in 094afef

self.run_command(['clone', '-q', url, dest])

pip should perform shallow clones of git repositories since it's downloading history information that it's not using. Performing shallow clones would greatly speed up this bit when used with large git repositories.
@pradyunsg pradyunsg added type: enhancement Improvements to functionality C: vcs pip's interaction with version control systems like git, svn and bzr labels Dec 23, 2017
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#2432 seems to where this was brought up before. Closing this in favour of that.

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