On 16 August 2017 at 11:46, Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamu...@canonical.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 6:24 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle
> <michael.hud...@canonical.com> wrote:
> > On 11 August 2017 at 07:19, Robie Basak <robie.ba...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> "git ubuntu clone <package>" is like "git clone", but also knows the URL
> >> and some sensible default refspecs.
> >>
> >> If you then run "git tag", which tags do you expect to have
> >> automatically been fetched for you?
> >
> >
> > I think I would expect to get all tags, but maybe I'm failing to grasp
> the
> > number of tags you are talking about. Can you point to a repo on lp that
> has
> > a worryingly large number of tags?
>
> Define "worryingly large" :)
>
> $ git ubuntu clone samba
> $ git tag | wc -l
> 1364
> $ git branch -r | wc -l
> 248
>
OK :)
> The "correct" import for samba will actually have more tags, as we
> will have a tag for every orig tarball in Debian and Ubuntu
> (pkg/upstream/{debian,ubuntu}/<version>.<extension>), a tag for every
> patches-unapplied import in Debian and Ubuntu (pkg/import/<version>)
> and a tag for every patches-applied import in Debian and Ubuntu
> (pkg/applied/<version>). I say "correct" because in the currently
> imported repository, we did not distinguish between the ubuntu and
> debian pristine-tar data and that led to issues.
>
I think having all of those things sounds better than not having them.
> TBH, I agree with Robie that `git checkout import/<tab>` becomes
> relatively useless, but I rarely am going to a specific version, but
> to a specific branch, of which there are far fewer. When I want to see
> the diff between two imported versions, I don't check them out, I do
> `git diff import/<upstream of version1><tab> import/<upstream of
> version2><tab>` It might still take a few iterations of <tab> and
> adding characters, but it's not terrible, in my experience so far.
>
> I also think it's important to stay closer to git's behavior unless we
> have a strong reason to do so.
>
+1
Cheers,
mwh
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