From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Confusion about new format of ELPA repo Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:29:23 -0800 Message-ID: <87eejywirw.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87h7ouycyq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87im9avhm6.fsf@gnus.org> <87eejyvhdh.fsf@gnus.org> <87zh2mwuyp.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4522"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:QANZtEBPqGPH3y462qXxU9ZIWU0= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 10 02:31:15 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1knAnb-00015r-4B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 02:31:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57930 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1knAna-0000SD-6U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:31:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1knAm6-0008Jj-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:29:42 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:38894 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1knAm4-0005kI-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:29:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1knAm0-000A8c-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 02:29:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:260626 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Aha, got it. I'm running a "git fetch" that looks like it's going to >> take a while, so I'll see what the new landscape looks like after lunch. >> Thanks for the explanation. > > You can also do: > > git clone --single-branch -b externals/ack .../elpa.git > > which should only download the data for that branch. Well I have several packages to work on, and had a long lunch to get through, so I brought the whole thing down. This works nicely! I've never done worktree-inside-a-repo before, but all the tooling handles it well, and I didn't even have to change my load-path additions. Thanks, Eric