Description
Since moving to XCFramework as the integration method for Gutenberg for Mobile Apps, we have been downloading the source code via Git in order to generate strings, see wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS#21416.
Needless to say, checking out the whole repo take a long time, even with --depth 1
, which is one of the reasons we moved to XCFramework in the first place.
As we work to hand over release management to the devs, see https://github.com/Automattic/apps-infra-plans/issues/5, it would be good to take the time to remove this bottleneck.
One idea I have is to download the source code from the GitHub release (assuming a release is used, which is in most of the integration cases). After all, what we don't need Git history, only a snapshot of the code.
For reference, the archive for version 1.109.2 is around 20 MB
