Right now the git step is doing some funny business to cache git repositories on the agent. The git2 crate which is itself based on libgit2 doesn't overtly support using a reference repository on the clone operation.
After some discussion in #libgit2, there's potentially a workaround:
13:26:00 rtyler | my understanding for cloning with a reference repository is that the reference is used primarily, and then the "upstream" repo
| is the alternate (to use this parlance)
13:27:55 qyliss | I'm not sure
13:28:00 qyliss | but should be easy to test
13:30:41 qyliss | rtyler: it looks like the odb is a property of the repository
13:30:50 qyliss | see here: https://libgit2.org/libgit2/#HEAD/group/repository/git_repository_odb
13:31:22 qyliss | so I think what you'd want to do is make an empty repository, set up your remote, get the odb, set up your alternate, and then
| fetch
13:31:36 qyliss | I think in this case the alternate would be the other local repository.
13:31:45 rtyler | yeah that makes sense
For this issue, first need to validate the experimental approach of:
Create bare repository
Add remote
Get odb
set up alternate(s)
fetch
If that actually works, replacing the clone() function in stdlib/git should be relatively straightforward.
Right now the
gitstep is doing some funny business to cache git repositories on the agent. Thegit2crate which is itself based onlibgit2doesn't overtly support using a reference repository on the clone operation.After some discussion in
#libgit2, there's potentially a workaround:For this issue, first need to validate the experimental approach of:
If that actually works, replacing the
clone()function instdlib/gitshould be relatively straightforward.