commercialhaskell / commercialhaskell/stack
Optionally cache Git object files in Pantry directory
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Description
Setting milestone to P1 to ensure we decide on this before the Stack 2.0 release.
I was unaware until recently of the `GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY` environment variable, described at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Environment-Variables. IIUC, we can set this environment variable to a shared directory inside the `pantry` directory, and cache repository information across usages.
Advantages:
* Don't need to reclone the entire history of a repo when switching to a slightly later commit
* The current inefficiency of using multiple subdirectories from a single repo will mostly disappear
Disadvantages:
* Adds lots of additional storage
The disadvantage can be addressed with a future feature of some `gc` command to Stack, which is actually the topic of a likely GSoC project.
CC @borsboom and @qrilka for feedback.
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