On 03/11/16 14:06, Gary Thomas wrote:
I recall seeing some discussion in the past about using shallow
GIT clones when importing repositories?  Is this ever going to
happen?

The reason I ask is that I routinely save the GIT tarballs and
some of them are obscenely obese :-(  The worst of the bunch
is the device firmware for the RaspberryPi (as of today):
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas 6321877646 Nov  3 12:13
git2_github.com.raspberrypi.firmware.git.tar.gz


On the OE-Core mailing list, there is currently a case of downloading 600MB for gdb alone... I think this concern applies to Yocto and OpenEmbedded as a whole.

Cheers,

Bas.
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