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Peter Kellner
Peter Kellner

Reputation: 15498

How To Efficiently Use Git (GitHub) From a Build Server

I have a GitHub repository that is a couple hundred megabytes of project code. I have a build server that I want to have it pull source from GitHub often and build it. I'm concerned that on every build, I am pulling down to my build server the full GitHub repository. is there a recommended way to keep my GitHub repository in sync with a repository on my build server so that I only need to pull down the diff's? It's not obvious how to do that (to me). Any articles or references would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 493

Answers (1)

Titas
Titas

Reputation: 1164

You should configure your build server to not git clone repository every time, but just to git fetch the branch that you want to build. This way, only the initial clone operation will be costly, subsequent fetches will only fetch deltas and be much faster.

Upvotes: 4

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