[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 rhaas):

 Replying to [comment:2 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.

 I seem to be usually the one arguing for small sizes due to HOME directory
 restrictions (usually on Kraken since I have to keep my codes there since
 it (used to be) is the only folder accessible to me that is not purged). I
 don't remember having said anything about shallow clones since I would
 never actually check the code out on kraken but rather use sim sync to
 transfer which does not (or can be configured to not) include the
 repository metadata.

 I'd welcome making --noshallow the default (whether or not --shallow stays
 as an option I don't mind, though if it simplifies the code I should be
 removed). This would also solve occasional problems where I could not
 check out from bitbucket (but have not been able to really pinpoint what
 is causing it).

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