How to checkout and BUILD specific chromium tag/branch without download the FULL source code of all history?

This is probably the fastest way to fetch Chromium’s source code. Suppose 59.0.3071.115 is the version of Chromium, you wish to build. You run this command: git fetch https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git +refs/tags/59.0.3071.115:chromium_59.0.3071.115 If you don’t want the history to be fetched (faster fetching of Chromium source code): git fetch https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git +refs/tags/59.0.3071.115:chromium_59.0.3071.115 –depth 1 Now from your Chromium … Read more