git clone --depth 1

[David Hodgson]

Summary of the bug:
the build instructions on ​https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Centos use bare 'git clone' which download all versions and changes. For libx265 it downloads 265MB.

If --depth 1 is used everywhere, it much reduces the download size. For libx265 it's reduced from 250MB to <2MB.

In my (limited) experience, the only git clone which doesn;t work with --depth 1 is x265, which needs --depth 2

I've not directly edited the wiki as I'm new here and I wouldn't know the correct way to do that.

[David Hodgson]

Exact results:

git clone --branch stable https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git.git
Cloning into 'x265_git'...
remote: Counting objects: 88902, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (88863/88863), done.
remote: Total 88902 (delta 6470), reused 82187 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (88902/88902), 252.38 MiB | 7.12 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (6470/6470), done.

 git clone --branch stable --depth 2 https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git.git
Cloning into 'x265_git'...
remote: Counting objects: 357, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (354/354), done.
remote: Total 357 (delta 21), reused 274 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (357/357), 1.58 MiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (21/21), done.

[Balling]

But we are not using master HEAD of x265, are we? As it can be super beta?

[David Hodgson]

Yes, the wiki's code is:

git clone https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git

--branch stable is better than master :-)

[David Hodgson]

From my recent build, libx265 and libx265 both have --branch stable.

For the others, pick a release ...

[David Hodgson]

adapted build script

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

The wiki is a wiki...