From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] chess.el: Req. for comment/review: Info manual Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:36:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83ha3it67o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mzqszid.fsf@fx.delysid.org> <83vbrytft7.fsf@gnu.org> <87r42m6pwh.fsf@fx.delysid.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403116646 10082 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2014 18:37:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mario Lang Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 18 20:37:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WxKjY-0005MF-04 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:37:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59998 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxKjX-0003Wv-Jw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxKjO-0003S8-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxKjJ-0007aY-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:62931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxKjJ-0007aE-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N7D00800N8JG700@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:37:04 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N7D008HONPRFP30@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:37:04 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87r42m6pwh.fsf@fx.delysid.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172512 Archived-At: > From: Mario Lang > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:20:14 +0200 > > > - git clone --reference .. --single-branch --branch externals/PACKAGE git://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/emacs/elpa PACKAGE > > + git clone --reference .. --single-branch --branch externals/PACKAGE $(git config remote.origin.url) PACKAGE > > > > is not necessarily for better: now this command and "make externals" > > will do subtly different things, which not everyone will realize. If > > we want to be sure people with write access use the URL with write > > access (and don't want to rely on them to know that and use the > > correct URL), we should make changes to admin/archive-contents.el to > > do that when all the externals are checked out. > > Hmm, I changed just README since I tripped over this behaviour when > using make externals. I originally wanted to change the code run by > make externals as well, but I was a bit too much chicken regarding me > being new on ELPA :-). Feel free to revert the one-liner in README if > you think it is too confusing. Or I will do that, if you feel strongly > about it. I'll let Stefan and Glenn do TRT, I no longer feel I understand what is going on with elpa and the externals. Why on earth did it have to be so complicated? Why did I need to read the Lisp source to figure out how to checkout a single package from externals?