Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Friday, 6 July 2018 06:34:01 BST Davyd McColl wrote: > >> 1) `sync-depth` has been deprecated (should now use `clone-depth`) > > [...] And why is the recent news item referring to instructions > to use sync-depth?
Things have changed with portage-2.3.42: sync-depth is again supported (in addition to clone-depth). clone-depth is for the first cloning, sync-depth is for the runnnig system. The strategy which I had mentioned (with --merge) is used if sync-depth is set (and nonzero). Only the git index for people with overlayfs is still missing, although there are plans to introduce this also, optionally.
