[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #942: GetComponents should not use shallow clones for Git checkouts

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#942: GetComponents should not use shallow clones for Git checkouts
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  Reporter:  hinder         |       Owner:  eric9
      Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  major          |   Milestone:       
 Component:  GetComponents  |     Version:       
Resolution:                 |    Keywords:       
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Comment (by eric9):

 I seem to remember some concern about space limitations in $HOME being
 raised in the original discussion of shallow clones. If that is not (no
 longer?) an issue, then I wholeheartedly support removing the shallow-
 clone default. A full clone of a git repo tends to be smaller than an svn
 checkout of the same repo anyway.

 Also, the mention of tarballs raises what seems to have been a silly
 oversight on my part when I first wrote !GetComponents. We can download
 arbitrary files using wget/curl, but since we most often deal with code it
 would be natural to add support for auto-extracting tarballs into the
 destination folder.

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