git-cachecow

git-cachecow is a tool that caches git repositories locally. Every time a build happens, it uses local caches for pulling. Submodules especially, which are harder to intercept for caching.

Will also inflate submodules recursively.

With 8 submodules, a total of 150MB of data to clone:

Before caching: 13.79s user 6.36s system 18% cpu 1:49.45 total

After caching: 2.12s user 2.07s system 25% cpu 16.310 total

Cached repositories are stored in ~/.git-cow by default. You can override this by setting $GIT_COW.

Installation

Either:

 with pypi: sudo pip install git-cachecow

Or:

 Clone git-cachecow and add the directory to your $PATH.

Usage

How to clone a repository with submodules:

git scclone git://github.com/grahamc/git-multi.git

## git-cclone git cclone repo_uri [clone_to [hash]]

## git-submodule-describe

Outputs submodule data into parsable format

` git://github.com/nationalfield/symfony.git lib/vendor/symfony aec67b5e7ba148c79b884b86988e42f9f9483bcd git@github.com:nationalfield/pheanstalk.git lib/vendor/pheanstalk 5b38924730b70ea720f760369899398479e2ea13 git@github.com:nationalfield/tinymce.git web/js/tiny_mce 0c3da0cc9e33df0f2b82f70bf7e24405de216bee `

## git-submodule-cclone
 Clones all the submodules recursively at their defined location and hashes.

Requirements:

• Python