Bug#1032623: lintian-brush: vcswatch should not raise error on repos > 1GiB in size

[Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>]

Re: Gábor Németh
> I see.
> 
> > trycmd ('git', 'clone', '--quiet', '--bare', '--mirror', '--depth',
> > '50', '--no-single-branch', '--template', '', $url, $pkgdir);
> >
> > depth=1 wouldn't work since we use "git describe".
> 
> Wouldn't then adding [.., '--filter', 'blob:none', ..] suffice for the
> needs of vncwatch?

Oh that's very interesting, had not seen that yet. We only need
debian/changelog (and a few other files from there), but the bulk of
the files is indeed not required. Will look into if only fetching that
is feasible.

Thanks,
Christoph