Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > Ian Jackson [12/Jan 6:17pm GMT] wrote: >> I note that the uscan(1) manpage discourages the use of mode=git. >> That seems like bad advice to me. > > If you only want notifications of the availability of new upstream > versions, and won't use uscan to actually obtain them, then because > mode=git is substantially heavier on our infrastructure and upstream's, > it's more considerate not to use it.
Isn't that mostly an artifact of the implementation, though? I suppose the PTS watch tracker performs a heavy 'git clone' somehow, and this is the problem? I got complaints for >512MB git repositories (or some similar limit), so this seems likely. Fetching all tags or the latest git commit on a particular branch is inexpensive. It doesn't have to do a full clone. /Simon
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