tree e7264f3814839734163e12d0d35e751bebb5f1b7
parent 82462aade0ad3fbe76284ac294b41fb500a1d2f8
author kjellander@webrtc.org <kjellander@webrtc.org> 1414066678 +0000
committer kjellander@webrtc.org <kjellander@webrtc.org> 1414066678 +0000

Download full Chromium checkouts by default

This changes sync_chromium.py to download a full Chromium
checkout instead of one with no history. It has been noticed
that the download of the no-history checkout is very slow, even
when on high-speed internet connections, due to current limitations
in the Git backend serving these clones.
Switching to a full checkout is faster, but requires more bandwidth
and disk space.

To keep the old behavior, users must set the CHROMIUM_NO_HISTORY
environment variable to 1.

Using a full checkout also enables the use of the Chromium
infrastructure teams' Git cache functionality, that speeds up
the initial download and also heavily reduces the traffic when
setting up multiple checkouts on the same machine.
This is not enabled by default, but is supported if the user is
setting the cache_dir variable in his checkout's .gclient file to
point at a directory on local disk.

BUG=3882
TESTED=
* Ran gclient sync and verified chromium/src now contained a Git
repo with full history.
* Tested rolling chromium_revision in DEPS forward + sync.
* Tested rolling it back again + sync.
* Tested with an existing no-history checkout:
  CHROMIUM_NO_HISTORY=1 gclient sync
  No change was performed.
* Tested with a .gclient that had cache_dir configured.
* Verified error message is displayed when .gclient has cache_dir
  configured and CHROMIUM_NO_HISTORY=1.

R=iannucci@chromium.org

Review URL: https://webrtc-codereview.appspot.com/22869004

git-svn-id: http://webrtc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@7506 4adac7df-926f-26a2-2b94-8c16560cd09d