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

[Shengjing Zhu]

Hi all,

I spent some time playing around GitHub api, and results a small tool,
https://github.com/zhsj/git-watch

I didn't implement it in uscan. But it can work well with uscan.

A demo service is at https://watch.zhsj.me/

Take one of packages I maintained,
https://tracker.debian.org/golang-github-xiaq-persistent
https://watch.zhsj.me/github/xiaq/persistent is the watch url.
And the following d/watch works fine,

version=4
opts="filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?([^/]*)\.tar\.gz%golang-github-xiaq-persistent-$1.tar.gz%"
\
  https://watch.zhsj.me/github/xiaq/persistent \
  (?:.*?/)?([^/]*)\.tar\.gz

This tool works both as web service and cli.

I hope you find this tool useful.

Yours,
Shengjing Zhu