Do not use a full clone of nixpkgs

[matthiasbeyer]

There are ways to tell git to not do a full clone of a repository. That would be a nice idea for (for example) "nixpkgs" as a source. Cloning the full nixpkgs tree (multiple times even, if stable and unstable are used in one setup) takes a lot of time (especially on small devices) and could be optimized.

Is there a way to tell krops to not clone a full tree? Or even specify options to git operations, so that for example blobs can be filtered or something like this?

[4z3]

Is there a way to tell krops to not clone a full tree?

Have you seen the shallow option of the git source type?

Or even specify options to git operations, so that for example blobs can be filtered or something like this?

There's no option for that, yet. I'm pondering if we should add something like extraArgs as a generic way to control Git.

[matthiasbeyer]

shallow

ah yes.

I'm pondering if we should add something like extraArgs as a generic way to control Git.

Maybe it would be a good idea.
Or maybe add a worktreeOf attribute, that makes one source a worktree of another, so that nixpkgs and nixpkgs-unstable can share the .git directory?