bug#33809: [PATCH] refresh: github: updates for origins using 'git-fetch'.

[Eric Bavier]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 18:26:06 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Eric,
> 
> address@hidden skribis:
> 
> > From: Eric Bavier <address@hidden>
> >
> > * guix/import/github.scm (updated-github-url): Respond with the repository 
> > url
> > for the 'git-fetch' fetch method.
> > (github-package?): Simplify boolean expression.
> > (github-repository, github-user-slash-repository): Strip trailing ".git" 
> > from
> > project if present.
> > (latest-release)<origin-github-uri>: Recognize a 'git-reference'.
> > ---
> >
> > Hello Guix,
> >
> > With our increasing adoption of git checkouts from github, for
> > reproducibility reasons, I thought it would be nice if our github updater
> > could find updates for package origins that use `git-fetch`.
> >
> > This patch brings the github updater coverage up from 9.5% to 15.9%.  At the
> > time of this writing, the previous updater finds 254 updates, and with this
> > patch finds 385! :)  
> 
> Neat!
> 
> LGTM, thank you!

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`~Eric

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