CircleCi restore source cache questions & pb

[evanj]

Interesting! I’m trying to make our “restoring source cache” step faster. I might try some git repo hacking to make it smaller, similar to what you did here to fix errors with the cache. I’ve posted a separate question about the source cache performance:

Slow "restoring source cache": 30s; sometimes 2m

I’ve been trying to make our tests run faster on CircleCI. I’ve noticed that some of our builds have a very slow “restoring source cache” step. Usually this takes ~30 seconds. However, sometimes it takes up to 2 minutes. Is there anything we can do to reduce the time this step takes? For example, I’m wondering if I should be trying to hack the CircleCI checkout to be a shallow clone? That would probably reduce the file size significantly. If there isn’t anything we can do to make this faster in…