On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:46:01AM -0200, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > About suggestion to use tarball snapshots instead of git-fetch: That's > interesting, I once read that `guix refresh` would behave better with > git-fetch methods than with url-fetch methods. But, as I found out > recently, it does seem that git-fetch imposes heavy load due to the > current innability to make shallow clones. So I'm now waiting for > others' input in this matter: Should I reformat the patch such that > url-fetch is used instead?
I prefer to use url-fetch with a tarball. First, upstream maintainers have typically prepared the tarball beyond what can be found from a Git tag. Second, it prevents the package from depending on Git, which is a large package.
