improve: make git installs use a blobless clone (#123835)

* perf: use blobless clone in git installer

* refactor(install): move clone-filter rationale above the call

Keep the file's comment convention (comments on their own lines) instead of a
150-column trailing comment, and record why blob:none is preferred over
--depth 1 plus why no fallback is needed.

Narrow the ordering test's source needle to the stable prefix so it stops
duplicating the behavioral flag assertion and no longer breaks whenever the
clone flags change.
This commit is contained in:
Peter Steinberger
2026-08-14 14:38:21 -07:00
committed by GitHub
parent e7255b9e8c
commit d27e318072
2 changed files with 41 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -2874,7 +2874,11 @@ install_openclaw_from_git() {
validate_git_checkout_head "$repo_dir" || return 1
if [[ ! -d "$repo_dir" ]]; then
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$repo_dir")"
run_quiet_step "Cloning OpenClaw" git clone "$repo_url" "$repo_dir"
# Blobless clone: the installer checks out one release tag, so full blob
# history is downloaded and then discarded. blob:none keeps ref metadata
# (unlike --depth 1) so ref switching and later updates still work, and
# git warns and falls back to a full clone if the server cannot filter.
run_quiet_step "Cloning OpenClaw" git clone --filter=blob:none "$repo_url" "$repo_dir"
fi
local git_ref
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@@ -1017,14 +1017,47 @@ NODE
const output = result?.stdout ?? "";
expect(output).toContain(`git=${join(openclawHome, "openclaw")}`);
const mkdirParentIndex = script.indexOf('mkdir -p "$(dirname "$repo_dir")"');
const cloneIndex = script.indexOf(
'run_quiet_step "Cloning OpenClaw" git clone "$repo_url" "$repo_dir"',
);
// Ordering only. The clone flags are asserted behaviorally below, so this
// needle stays short enough to survive future changes to them.
const cloneIndex = script.indexOf('run_quiet_step "Cloning OpenClaw" git clone');
expect(mkdirParentIndex).toBeGreaterThan(-1);
expect(cloneIndex).toBeGreaterThan(-1);
expect(mkdirParentIndex).toBeLessThan(cloneIndex);
});
it("uses a blobless partial clone for new git installs", () => {
const result = runInstallShell(`
set -euo pipefail
source "${SCRIPT_PATH}"
repo="$HOME/openclaw"
check_git() { return 0; }
ensure_pnpm() { :; }
ensure_pnpm_binary_for_scripts() { :; }
resolve_git_openclaw_ref() { printf 'main\\n'; }
checkout_git_openclaw_ref() { :; }
cleanup_legacy_submodules() { :; }
activate_repo_pnpm_version() { :; }
git_install_lockfile_flag() { printf '%s\\n' '--frozen-lockfile'; }
run_quiet_step() {
printf 'step:%s|%s\\n' "$1" "\${*:2}"
[[ "$1" == "Cloning OpenClaw" ]] && mkdir -p "$repo"
return 0
}
ensure_user_local_bin_on_path() { mkdir -p "$HOME/.local/bin"; }
ui_info() { :; }
ui_success() { :; }
ui_error() { printf 'error:%s\\n' "$*"; }
git() { return 0; }
install_openclaw_from_git "$repo"
`);
expect(result.status).toBe(0);
expect(result.stdout).toContain(
"step:Cloning OpenClaw|git clone --filter=blob:none https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw.git",
);
});
it("does not treat OS HOME config as active when OPENCLAW_HOME is set", () => {
const tmp = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "openclaw-install-legacy-config-"));
const osHome = join(tmp, "os-home");