Cognitive Interaction Toolkit

The build generator and jenkins does multiple checkouts from git rpositories.
This is annoying and produces high load on the repository servers.
It also makes it impossible to be used on slow DSL connections at home (waiting hours for a build...).

Another thing is that we have problems with building the distribution at the lsp-csra due to the big size and the amounts of checkouts (high load on repo servers).

What about implenting the following caching behaviour ?

1) the buildgenerator:

if (does not exist $CACHEDIR/$projname){
  clone repo to $CACHEDIR/$projname
}else{
  cd $CACHEDIR/$projname && git pull
}

2) the buildgen enters $CACHEDIR/$projname as git url in the jenkins project configuration (that works, this is how i use jenkins at home)

It might be necessary to add a git pull to the project files, but i think jenkins does that automatically.

By implementin this we would reduce 3x checkout to 1x or even no full checkout at all.
This would vastly reduce the load on our repository/network infrastructure and would
also reduce the total build times!

I would really prefer using more diskspace due to the caching instead of network bandwidth usage.

That should not be to hard to implement. I do this manually when i build large distributions at home.