Why is fetching dependencies with SwiftPM so slow?

[SDGGiesbrecht (Jeremy David Giesbrecht)]

@taylorswift

is there anything that can be done about this?

See here:

Shallow git clone for CI purposes

We have a SPM Package for building the Firebase SDKs for zip distribution and have an internal CI that pull the project and all dependencies every build. I did some digging and saw that the SPM git clone intentionally does not do a shallow clone due to the cost of iterative updates. Do other folks think it would be helpful to have a command line flag to do a shallow clone during a SPM build? I assume it could be a parameter of the GitRepositoryProvider initializer and used in the fetch(reposit…