The power, it is going to my head.

- Shortcut to only checkout the bioperl release we want and not pull the whole git tree

.travis.yml

@@ -20,10 +20,7 @@ addons:
 before_install:
     - git clone --branch master --depth 1 https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-test.git
     - git clone --branch master --depth 1 https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-variation.git
-    - git clone https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live.git
-    - cd bioperl-live
-    - git checkout bioperl-release-1-6-1
-    - cd ../
+    - git clone -b bioperl-release-1-6-1 --depth 1 https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live.git
 
 
 install: