On Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:50:59 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 2:50 PM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is there some reason it should default > >> to doing unlimited depth fetch operations? > > > > If all you want is a repo, no reason to set the depth higher. > > Then a default of 1 seems like the obvious "right" answer. > Unfortunately, it defaults to "unlimited" according to > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/repos.conf > > sync-depth > > Specifies sync depth to use for DVCS repositories. If set to 0, > the depth is unlimited. Defaults to 0. > > > If you want to see the history then you'll want it all. > > Apparently, that's the default. Without any sync-depth setting the > fetch was stalling and then timing out after 60s. With sync-depth=1, > the fetch completed in about 1s.
I have it set to 8 here, for no reason I can remember. Is there a disadvantage in that? -- Regards, Peter.
