[WONTFIX] Having trouble with git clone for a VCS type PKGBUILD

Question

I'm trying to update (QGIS) in the AUR to use git so that I can make use of patches as they become available.
I have
source=("$pkgname"::'git+https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/release-2_4')
but this pulls a lot of data (750+ MB) and the pull or clone should only be ~80MB for that specific branch.
Changing the source to
source=("$pkgname"::'git://github.com/qgis/QGIS.git#branch=release-2_4')
it does the same thing and grabs a lot of data.
I noticed the fragment(branch) is ignored and it clones "master" instead.
From the terminal I can do
git clone -b release-2_4 --single-branch --depth 1 git://github.com/qgis/QGIS.git qgis
which works perfectly.
Is there a way to make "git clone" in the PKGBUILD use those flags like "-b release-2_4 --single-branch --depth 1"?
Last edited by saultdon (2014-06-29 02:03:54)

Answer 1

apg wrote:https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34677
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36631
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/37747
"Reason for closing:  Won't implement"
So it looks like my idea of using the old VCS pkgbuild would be the next best thing to try and if that fails, just tell users to check for latest commits since their last compile and re-download the tarball if needed (really didn't want to do that... it's much better to only have to fetch changes instead of the entire source).
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 16:49 GMT-7
That breaks the second checkout that is done by makepkg when "extracting sources".
Just don't use the source array and manually download the source in prepare(). (i.e. basically the old style of VCS package)