[Interest] Reduce band-with usage while cloning qt

Sérgio Martins iamsergio at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 19:18:59 CET 2017


On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Soroush Rabiei <soroush.rabiei at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I'm having a hard time trying to clone Qt git repository using a
> low-band internet connection.
>
> How can I make `init-repository' script to pass `--depth=1' to `git
> clone' ? I think it worth an additional comman-line argument for
> init-repository,  Qt's git history is really big.

Do you really need all Qt modules ? The way to save most bandwidth
would be to clone qtbase, qtdeclarative and whatever you need
directly.

Regards,
Sérgio Martins



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