Veeeeeeery slow upgrade due to dune package -> Why download the whole git history for each package?

[liar666]

Hi,

Thanks for the nice work.

I recently upgraded a very old box to OpenBSD 7.9. I wanted to also upgrade Doom so I ran doom upgrade.
This got stuck for hours on the dune package, so I stopped it and tried to debug it manually: I cded to ~/emacs.d/.local/straight/ repos/dune, and manually ran git fetch origin.
The first part (receiving objects) took quite some time (22MB to download) due to my box being old and on WIFI connection. But the second part (resolving deltas) is still running after 4 hours !! (but it is NOT stuck: I can see it beeing at ~72%: 24510/33534 and growing).

However, this made me think a little bit more. I'm not sure why we need to download the whole history of the repository for each package when we are interested only in the last version (or at least a specific commit version)? Couldn't we just run (git clone --depth 1 or something simliar?).

Is it something I should suggest "upstream" to the straight guys?

Maybe there's something I misunderstand?

Thanks in advance for any info/solution

[hlissner]

Couldn't we just run (git clone --depth 1 or something simliar?).

Shallow cloning is Doom's default behavior. You sure you haven't simply turned it off? Or maybe Github's having more reliability issues (it's been iffy the past few months).