build(compat): use a treeless TypeScript clone #6193
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What's the problem this PR addresses?
Building the latest TypeScript patch requires fetching https://github.com/arcanis/typescript, https://github.com/microsoft/typescript, and https://github.com/merceyz/typescript which, according to git, requires fetching 1.87 GiB, 452 MiB, and 42 MiB of data and produces a 2.7GB
.git
folder.How did you fix it?
Fork TypeScript to https://github.com/yarnpkg/TypeScript and push the branches required to build all the patches to it and change the script to use a treeless clone of it which only needs to fetch 55 MiB of data and produces a 74MB
.git
folder.Depends on
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