From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: updating async on elpa
Date: Sat, 01 May 2021 14:50:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0oi5wt3.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpmya4k4h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> [[PGP Encrypted Part:OK]]
>> Having one repository per package is how it works everywhere else
>> (Savannah, etc.), and is easier to understand because of that. This is
>> from the point of view of a contributor of course; I cannot speak to how
>> it looks from Stefan's side.
>
> From my side it's plain and simply not an option at all because creating
> a new repository on git.sv.gnu.org requires manual intervention from the
> Savannah admins. Having had to design a solution that lives within this
> constraint, I'm actually pretty happy about the current result, so if
> the constraint were lifted, I'd probably want to try and preserve
> the advantages.
>
> In any case the `:auto-sync` feature should make it much less of an issue.
>
>> I would be much happier if emms and rt-liberation had their own
>> repositories since it would mean that I couldn't possibly break anything
>> except emms or rt-liberation when I push to those projects in elpa.
>
> The `elpa.git` is configured to reject non-fast-forward pushes, which
> should catch most blunders. Plus it is cloned at various different
> places which are not all constantly updated, plus (almost) all changes
> to it are reflected in the elpa-diffs mailing-list. So even if you do
> manage to make some really terrible mistake it should be quite easy to
> recover from it.
Oh that's good and make me more confident, like Yoni I am always afraid
of corrupting the elpa repo.
> You might want to activate the `:auto-sync` on your packages, tho to
> save you from the worry.
Is this documented somewhere?
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Thierry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-01 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-30 11:56 updating async on elpa Thierry Volpiatto
2021-04-30 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-30 15:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-04-30 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-30 17:42 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-04-30 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-30 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-30 18:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-04-30 18:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-30 19:31 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-04-30 20:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 4:45 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-05-01 13:05 ` Yoni Rabkin
2021-05-01 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 14:50 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2021-05-01 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-02 20:26 ` (was Re: updating async on elpa) auto-sync for emms Yoni Rabkin
2021-05-03 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 13:06 ` updating async on elpa Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 14:38 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-05-01 15:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-05-01 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 18:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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