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Summary

Speed up downloads of the script with a more efficient shallow clone

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  • rather than cloning the entire history of the repo, can do a shallow clone with a depth of 1

    • this should make it more efficient, particularly when there are many commits or many large commits
    • since the history is unused by regular end users, there is no need to fetch/download it
  • also add syntax highlighting to the first code block, matching the second one

Notes to Reviewers

  • could alternatively do a bare clone to be even more efficient
    • but I thought a shallow clone is a bit less intrusive for now
      • and is reversible, if needed (i.e. a local shallow clone can fetch the rest of the depth)

References

This is largely equivalent to ryanrudolfoba/SteamOS-Waydroid-Installer#198

- rather than cloning the entire history of repos, can do a shallow clone with a [depth](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#Documentation/git-clone.txt-code--depthcodeemltdepthgtem) of 1
  - this should make it more efficient, particularly when there are many commits or many large commits
  - since the history is unused by regular end users, there is no need to fetch/download it

- could alternatively do a [bare](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#Documentation/git-clone.txt-code--barecode) clone to be even more efficient
  - but I thought a shallow clone is a bit less intrusive for now
    - and is reversible, if needed (i.e. a local shallow clone can fetch the rest of the depth)

- also add syntax highlighting to the first code block, matching the second one
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huakim commented Apr 7, 2025

Thanks! I have merged this to my forked repository

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