Re: [package-vc] Consider cleaning up files from install process

[Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in>]

> > In other words, the way package-vc-install currently works leaves me
> > vulnerable to this scenario:
> >
> > 1.  I use package-vc-install to install one of my packages from its local
> >    repository directory.
> > 2.  I check out a feature branch of that package to work on a new feature,
> >    saving some files but not loading any of the changed code.
> > 3.  I restart Emacs (e.g. maybe I shut down the system and turned it back on
> >    the next day).
> > 4.  That work-in-progress feature branch of my package gets loaded into
> >     Emacs automatically (which may be entirely broken, being a WIP).

> Not sure why you consider that a problem.  That's the whole purpose of
> installing straight from the VCS rather than from a tarball.

> If you don't want your Emacs to use that work-in-progress feature
> branch, then work on it elsewhere than in the VCS clone that was created
> specifically to be used in-place.
> E.g. use `git worktree`.

> > Philip, would you be willing to consider switching to that model for
> > package-vc-install, or offering it as an option?

> The option already exists, it's called `git worktree` :-)

I had not considered `git worktree` as a solution.  Very neat.

> Switching to "that model" wholesale would prevent the current use where
> you can edit the *live* files.

Thank you!

Joseph