Shotgun Desktop - Loading project with multiple git descriptor defined configurations

[tannaz]

Hi Aleksandar –

Thanks for laying all that out so clearly! It looks like this is a known issue; there’s a bit more explanation in this ticket about what’s going on:

Distributed git configs - why does it clone the repo multiple times?

So my theory was correct, that not providing a commit id, means that it will always attempt to download it. As for why it is happening twice, it’s not clear without investigating, but at a guess, we think it was probably written in a way where at any point where it requires the bundle, it will ensure it is local. Since usually, it would only download if it wasn’t found locally so it would typically be a very quick check, so not a problem. I appreciate that doesn’t fully answer the question, an…

At any rate, I’ve put in an internal ticket to track the bug (or at least… unoptimization). I’ve linked this post to the internal ticket, so I’ll be notified when it’s resolved, and will notify you here in turn.