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. -- Sean Whitton
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