With the "mediawiki-experimental" patches enabled, cloning from mediawiki fails: $ git clone -c remote.origin.namespaces='GLEP' mediawiki::https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki Cloning into 'wiki'... "my" variable @tracked_namespaces masks earlier declaration in same scope at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-remote-mediawiki line 75. Subroutine get_mw_tracked_namespaces redefined at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-remote-mediawiki line 302. Undefined subroutine &main::run_git called at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-remote-mediawiki line 75. $ git clone mediawiki::https://wiki.gentoo.org Cloning into 'wiki.gentoo.org'... "my" variable @tracked_namespaces masks earlier declaration in same scope at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-remote-mediawiki line 75. Subroutine get_mw_tracked_namespaces redefined at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-remote-mediawiki line 302. Undefined subroutine &main::run_git called at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-remote-mediawiki line 75. $ It appears to work fine with USE="-mediawiki-experimental".
Both flags need to go away. This was a failed experiment, and the patches will never go upstream.
(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #1) > Both flags need to go away. This was a failed experiment, and the patches > will never go upstream. USE="mediawiki" enables code that is in upstream's contrib directory: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/contrib/mw-to-git So I'd rather keep this one, because the functionality is sometimes useful.
I just run into this and found, like others, that disabling the mediawiki-experimental USE flag allows me to "git clone mediawiki::https://wiki.gentoo.org wiki.gentoo.org". So I suggest to keep the mediawiki USE flag but drop the mediawiki-experimental flag.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0f438ccc5002f2c4cf1e2a4d7c9a9b26fcf1bb7a commit 0f438ccc5002f2c4cf1e2a4d7c9a9b26fcf1bb7a Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-03-07 15:49:10 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-03-07 15:49:10 +0000 dev-vcs/git: drop broken USE=mediawiki-experimental Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/764998 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> dev-vcs/git/git-2.39.1.ebuild | 15 +-------------- dev-vcs/git/git-2.39.2.ebuild | 15 +-------------- dev-vcs/git/git-2.40.0_rc0.ebuild | 15 +-------------- dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r1.ebuild | 15 +-------------- dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r2.ebuild | 15 +-------------- dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r3.ebuild | 15 +-------------- dev-vcs/git/git-9999.ebuild | 15 +-------------- dev-vcs/git/metadata.xml | 1 - 8 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
