Re: updating async on elpa

[Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net>]

Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> [[PGP Encrypted Part:OK]]
>>>>>> <user>@git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs/elpa.git ?
>>>>> So no, it is not this,
>>>> Yes it it, but this only specifies the repository, not the branch.
>>> Hmm, I understand nothing how the elpa is structured, too complicated for me.
>>
>> When you push a branch you need to tell to which branch in the remote
>> repository you're pushing.  The syntax is:
>>
>>     git push <repository> <localbranch>:<remotebranch>
>>
>> so if you're pushing from your local `elpa` branch to elpa.git's
>> `externals/async` branch, then you need to do:
>>
>>     git push elpa elpa:externals/async
>>
>> I suspect the problem is that you used a shorthand which works well when
>> the remote branch has the same name as a the local branch but can't be
>> used here.
>
> I will rename it to something else.
>
>> I'm not sure how much simpler we could make it.  E.g. if we used
>> a separate repository per package, then presumably your `elpa` remote
>> would point to something like git.sv.gnu.org:emacs/elpa/async.git
>> and you'd need to push to the `main` branch in that repository, which
>> would still bring the same problem since the name `main` is still
>> different from the name `elpa` you used for your local branch.
>
> Yes, the name I use -elpa- is bad, but yes a repository per repo would be
> great, in github organizations allow having one repo per package like in
> helm organization.

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.

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. As
it stands, I'm always extremely wary that I would get the magical git
incantation wrong and mess up the the u.s. constitution and the magna
carta by mistake.

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