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.