git-fastclone

git-fastclone is git clone --recursive on steroids.

Why fastclone?

Doing lots of repeated checkouts on a specific machine?

Repository	1st Fastclone	2nd Fastclone	git clone	cp -R
angular.js	8s	3s	6s	0.5s
bootstrap	26s	3s	11s	0.2s
gradle	25s	9s	19s	6.2s
linux	4m 53s	1m 6s	3m 51s	29s
react.js	18s	3s	8s	0.5s
tensorflow	19s	4s	8s	1.5s

Above times captured using time without verbose mode.

What does it do?

It creates a reference repo with git clone --mirror in /var/tmp/git-fastclone/reference for each repository and git submodule linked in the main repo. You can control where it puts these by changing the REFERENCE_REPO_DIR environment variable.

It aggressively updates these mirrors from origin and then clones from the mirrors into the directory of your choosing. It always works recursively and multithreaded to get your checkout up as fast as possible.

Detailed explanation here.

Usage

gem install git-fastclone
git fastclone [options] <git-repo-url>

-b, --branch <branch>   Clone a specific branch
-v, --verbose           Shows more info
-c, --color             Pretty colors!

Change the default REFERENCE_REPO_DIR environment variable if necessary.

Cygwin users need to add ~/bin to PATH.

How to test?

Manual testing:

ruby -Ilib bin/git-fastclone <git url>

Compatible with Travis and Kochiku.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to git-fastclone, you can fork the repository and send us pull requests.

When submitting code, please make every effort to follow existing conventions and style in order to keep the code as readable as possible.

Before accepting any pull requests, we need you to sign an Individual Contributor Agreement (Google form).

Acknowledgements

thoughtbot/terrapin - jyurek and collaborators

License

Copyright 2015 Square Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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