Keep git repositories checked out

[dolfandringa]

This may be a feature request, but didn't want to open one without knowing for sure it's not possible already.

TLDR: is it possible to keep VCS dependencies checked out in a src folder insgtead of requiring it to be checked out for every poetry update or poetry install?

So I have a package that depends on a pacakage from another git repository. That git repository is 1.8Gb in size. On top of that I am dealing with rate limiting from github which often limits my git checkouts to 10KB/s (don't know why). That last part is solved with a VPN, but even without the rate limiting, it would really save a lot of time when reinstalling dependencies multiple times if there was an option to keep VCS dependencies checked out in some src folder and just git pull/fetching updates, instead of checking out the whole repository again and again to /tmp. Is this possible somehow?

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[sinoroc]

Makes somewhat sense. Don't know what the current behaviour (internally) exactly is, though. Have you tried setting develop = true on those git dependencies? Also maybe there are improvement that could be made in poetry so that only a single commit is fetched (or at least not the whole repository, although maybe poetry already fetches selectively, I don't know).

[dolfandringa]

When I set develop=true on that repository and then run a poetry update it still runs this git command:
git clone --recurse-submodules http://github.com/dolfandringa/KivyMD.git /tmp/pypoetry-git-KivyMDivv85z7iso the full checkout in /tmp. And every subsequent run I guess will do the same again.

[dolfandringa]

I made a feature request for this: #3420

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