Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] ci: accelerate the checkout

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 4, 2021, 22:37 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2107050036220.8230@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <8735su8nkk.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Hi Ævar,

On Sun, 4 Jul 2021, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 03 2021, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
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> > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> >
> > By upgrading from v1 to v2 of `actions/checkout`, we avoid fetching all
> > the tags and the complete history: v2 only fetches one revision by
> > default. This should make things a lot faster.
> >
> > Note that `actions/checkout@v2` seems to be incompatible with running in
> > containers: https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/151. Therefore,
> > we stick with v1 there.
>
> I'd suggest that we shouldn't link to a "closed" issue here and instead
> to what seems to be the successor issue:
> https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/334

I'd suggest that we can still link to this issue, even if it was closed without the bug actually having been fixed. The ticket describes the problem well.

> But looking at #151 most of the issue is a bazillion commit references
> to this commit being rebased again and again, seems like github isn't
> especially well set up for the "spam" our perpetual rebasing of the same
> commits causes :)

Sure, blame me.

Ciao, Dscho