remotes: move refcaching to disk

This speeds up a lot of operations substantially, at the cost of
occasionally being wrong for a little while when new packages are
added/removed from the repositories. Mostly, this is for the sake of
the completions.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/asp.in b/asp.in
index 94cc420..cb983a4 100644
--- a/asp.in
+++ b/asp.in
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ ARCH_GIT_REPOS=(packages community)
 OPT_ARCH=$(uname -m)
 OPT_FORCE=0
 : ${ASPROOT:=$HOME/asp}
+: ${ASPCACHE:=$ASPROOT/cache}
 
 m4_include(util.inc.sh)
 m4_include(remote.inc.sh)
@@ -88,6 +89,8 @@ initialize() {
     migrate_bare_repo
   fi
 
+  [[ -d $ASPCACHE ]] || mkdir -p "$ASPCACHE"
+
   [[ -f .asp ]] && return 0
 
   git init || return 1