Ian Jackson <[email protected]> writes: > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Include git commit id and git tree id in > *.changes files when uploading? [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more > messages]"): >> Simon Josefsson [12/Jan 7:55pm +01] wrote: >> > 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 just experimented. I took the "bubblewrap" package in sid as a test > case. The existing watch file uses an https pattern. I replaced it > with this: > > version=4 > opts="mode=git" https://github.com/bundlewrap/bundlewrap refs/tags/v?(\d\S*)
I found the PTS complaint I remembered: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lib25519 https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch?package=lib25519 "Error: Repository size 530227200 exceeds 500 MiB, blocking it" That means it is not 'uscan' that is inefficient, but vcswatch. Presumably vcswatch can be rewritten in a more efficient way and avoid download the entire git repository I agree with your conclusion though. Let's stop recommending against mode=git. For many packages, it is the best option. /Simon
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