fetchGit: use a better caching scheme

The current usage technically works by putting multiple different
repos in to the same git directory. However, it is very slow as
Git tries very hard to find common commits between the two
repositories. If the two repositories are large (like Nixpkgs and
another long-running project,) it is maddeningly slow.

This change busts the cache for existing deployments, but users
will be promptly repaid in per-repository performance.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
index 7aa98e0bfab3..aeb2df5f8aee 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include "download.hh"
 #include "store-api.hh"
 #include "pathlocks.hh"
+#include "hash.hh"
 
 #include <sys/time.h>
 
@@ -84,9 +85,10 @@ GitInfo exportGit(ref<Store> store, const std::string & uri,
     if (rev != "" && !std::regex_match(rev, revRegex))
         throw Error("invalid Git revision '%s'", rev);
 
-    Path cacheDir = getCacheDir() + "/nix/git";
+    Path cacheDir = getCacheDir() + "/nix/gitv2/" + hashString(htSHA256, uri).to_string(Base32, false);
 
     if (!pathExists(cacheDir)) {
+        createDirs(dirOf(cacheDir));
         runProgram("git", true, { "init", "--bare", cacheDir });
     }