From 79d8d16184172f1aa4fabf0c4aa8017a9a3b0361 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Armando Di Cianno <armando@dicianno.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:35:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] use "git clone --depth 1"

Prefer a shallow clone for builds from git repos, as we don't need all
the historical stuff.

Signed-off-by: Adam Vandenberg <flangy@gmail.com>
---
 Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
index c0daf687a2..68ad963902 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ class GitDownloadStrategy <AbstractDownloadStrategy
     end
 
     unless @clone.exist?
-      safe_system 'git', 'clone', @url, @clone # indeed, leave it verbose
+      safe_system 'git', 'clone', '--depth', '1', @url, @clone # indeed, leave it verbose
     else
       puts "Updating #{@clone}"
       Dir.chdir(@clone) do