Hi, On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:20:22PM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > Hi, > > I want to know if it's still possible to support GitHub's commit via > different way, rather than do a `git clone`. > > I find GitHub has RSS feed for the commit, the url is like > https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang/commits/master.atom > So uscan can parse that xml feed, and get the commit data, id, and > finally forms the download link like > https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang/archive/71736daa55a06e466cdcc6c0347f5b9489471fe3.tar.gz, > and the version is 0.0~git<date>.<short commit id> > Besides, the RSS feed url is not an API url, and will not have the API > rate problem.
Good. > That's simpler than doing `git clone` locally, though the shortage is > site specific. > BTW, gitlab also provides such feed, the url format is like > https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commits/master?format=atom I have been busy with other higher priority issues with devscripts lately. There are two types of git archives. I don't want to make unorganized addition. Please let me have some time on this. It is living in my private git now. Osamu
