Bug#811565: [pkg-go] Bug#811565: [uscan] git mode: allow for scanning repositories without tags

[Michael Stapelberg]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 08:19:20AM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > The functionality in the tool is exactly what was already communicated
> in the
> > bug :).
> >
> > If you need any help with that bug, just let me know.
>
> #1: exact use case example URL.  (Project which hopefully exists after 4
> years.)
>

Here’s an example: https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang/. The
corresponding Debian binary package is
https://packages.debian.org/buster/dh-make-golang; there’s no debian/watch
file yet because of the current lack of support for git :).

Please let me know if you need anything else. Thanks!


>
> #2 Yes, I see ... but backticks .... I think I need to do it slightly
> different
>
> backticks("git", "clone", "--quiet", "--bare", "--depth=1", $url,
>     $dest);
>
> my $commit_data = backticks("git", "--git-dir=$dest", "log", "-1",
>     "--date=format:%Y%m%d", "--format=%h %cd");
>
> chomp($commit_data);
> $commit_data =~ /^([0-9a-z]{7}) ([0-9]{8})$/m
>     or die("Invalid git response: $commit_data");
> return ($1, $2);
>
> Thank
>
> Osamu
>
>


-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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