[APT-14] Determine way to speed up Move Aptos framework dependency download

[babyface001]

🚀 Feature Request

split big repo

Motivation

framework dep is too long to download.

_APT-14

[JoshLind]

Can you provide more details? Parts of our repo require the move and framework deps, so this is unavoidable for these.

[babyface001]

@JoshLind download framework dep will clone entry git repo, it 's too big.

if we split it into a separate repo, it will be small download.

[babyface001]

we just need download framework repo, not entry aptos_core big repo.

[wrwg]

The solution here is to use on-chain instead of git deps in the Move.toml. It is true that there is a large overhead here because for each Move package referenced, the full aptos-core repo needs to be downloaded.

[wrwg]

Similar as #5909

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[brmataptos]

I note that there is a --skip-fetch-latest-git-deps flag which you can use in case of poor network connection.

[vgao1996]

Update: there's been more discussions on this issue recently, and here's what we plan to do to address this issue

• Setting up a mirror repo that serves only the framework packages
  • This will be a read-only repo, with changes automatically synced from aptos-core using copy-bara
• Exploring git shallow cloning so to avoid downloading unnecessary histories