Re: mode=git and no tags (Was: debian/watch version 5)

[Yadd <yadd@debian.org>]

On 9/10/25 22:23, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> Am Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 09:44:28PM +0200 schrieb Carl Keinath:
> > Version: 5
> >
> > Source: https://github.com/jacobsa/timeutil.git
> > Matching-Pattern: HEAD
> > Mode: git
> > Git-Pretty: 0.0~git%cd
>
> Ah, this works.  Thank you.  Some dedicated template would be nice
> anyway.

Hi,

Sure a good Git template should help. I'm trying to reproduce and fix a 
bug I had with node-unicode-data which used a Git template (I just 
switch to tags). Version 5 given by "uscan --update-watchfile" gave a 
bad watchfile. This may be related to recent big changes on git submodule

> > Maybe consult man debian-watch and note that afaik the newline after
> > Version: 5 is mandatory.
>
> By chance I forgot this hint and it works even without the newline.
>
> Thanks a lot for your hints
Cheers,
Yadd