Support environment variable GIT_CLONE_DEPTH.

CHANGES.md

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## 4.0.4 (unreleased)
 
+- Support environment variable `GIT_CLONE_DEPTH` for setting a default git depth for all checkouts.  Useful for CI.
+  [maurits]
+
 - Fix #47: Do not add packages with capital names uncommented at the bottom ignore list when checked out.
   [petschki]
 

README.md

@@ -254,6 +254,13 @@ True by default, unless `default-use` in the general settings is false.
 When false, the source is not checked out,
 and the version for this package is not overridden.
 
+#### `depth`
+
+For `git` only.
+This is used to set the git clone depth.
+This is not set by default: you get a full clone.
+You can set environment variable `GIT_CLONE_DEPTH=1` to set a default git depth for all checkouts.  This is useful for CI.
+
 #### `submodules`
 
 There are 3 different options:

src/mxdev/vcs/git.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 
 logger = common.logger
+GIT_CLONE_DEPTH = os.getenv("GIT_CLONE_DEPTH")
 
 
 class GitError(common.WCError):
@@ -151,8 +152,8 @@ def git_checkout(self, **kwargs) -> typing.Union[str, None]:
         update_git_submodules = self.source.get("submodules", kwargs["submodules"])
         if update_git_submodules == "recursive":
             args.append("--recurse-submodules")
-        if "depth" in self.source:
-            args.extend(["--depth", self.source["depth"]])
+        if "depth" in self.source or GIT_CLONE_DEPTH:
+            args.extend(["--depth", self.source.get("depth", GIT_CLONE_DEPTH)])
         if "branch" in self.source:
             args.extend(["-b", self.source["branch"]])
         args.extend([url, path])