Hi Sean, Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
> Hello, > > Simon Josefsson [12/Jan 7:55pm +01] wrote: >> 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. > > Right. But so long as that's the implementation, the discouragement is > apt. I think recently in uscan `Git-Mode' now defaults to `shallow' when using `Mode: git' according to `man debian-watch' (version 5 format, and I think the same applies to version 4 as well), which means it uses `--depth=1' and hence will be much more lightweight. I hope this means that `Mode: git' is not really a heavy operation anymore. -- Regards, Xiyue Deng
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