From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
Cc: "Yuan Fu" <casouri@gmail.com>,
"Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
"Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev>,
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Don't add tags to ELPA packages -- documentation?
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:38:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s0xknth.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o89ti2a7.fsf@bernoul.li> (Jonas Bernoulli's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2021 22:54:08 +0200")
Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
> Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Let's document that tags should not be pushed; both why and how,
> as described elsewhere in this thread.
I sent an in a README patch a couple of messages up-thread.
> But I expect that tags will still occasionally be pushed anyway.
> When that happens we should figure out what upstream repository
> they came from, educate the respective maintainer about how to
> avoid pushing them again, and then delete them.
This looks fairly simple. Tags can be deleted locally with:
git tag --delete <tagname>
and deleted from the upstream repo with:
git push origin :refs/tags/<tagname>
Apparently pushing an empty :tagname does the trick; thank you git for
more unintuitive syntax. The "refs/tags" is safer since tags and
branches have separate namespaces and we might hit a branch by accident.
> But [because it is going to keep happening] this is more important:
>
>> Mmm, IIUC any of "git clone", "git fetch" and "git pull" can fetch tags
>> if not used with "--no-tags". A quick look at elpa-admin.el shows some
>> occurrences of "pull" without "--no-tags", but I haven't looked hard
>> enough at the GNU ELPA machinery to figure if those could have fetched
>> the tags we observe.
>
> Every occurrence of "git clone ..." and "git remote add ..." in the
> documentation should be updated to mention that "--no-tags" has to be
> used to prevent tags from being pulled. We should also document how to
> recover if the tags have already been pulled. And finally we should add
> an annotated tag named something like "use--no-tags" and use its
> annotation to repeat the documentation about adding "--no-tags" and how
> to clean up.
>
> Jonas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-19 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-17 21:10 Don't add tags to ELPA packages -- documentation? Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-17 21:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-17 21:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-17 22:01 ` Adam Porter
2021-08-17 22:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-17 23:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-17 23:15 ` Phil Sainty
2021-08-17 23:28 ` Phil Sainty
2021-08-17 23:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-18 2:30 ` Phil Sainty
2021-08-18 6:41 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2021-08-18 7:03 ` Yuan Fu
2021-08-18 13:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-18 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-18 14:26 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-08-18 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-18 15:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-18 16:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-18 19:43 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-08-18 23:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-19 20:54 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-08-19 23:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2021-08-20 7:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-20 15:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-19 23:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-18 7:21 ` Phil Sainty
2021-08-18 8:15 ` Bozhidar Batsov
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