One other thing. After making a change to externals-list, how does one
check that it works properly?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> >     Using .gitmodules in this way is a bit of an experiment. Currently
>> these
>> >     four projects are separate github repositories.
>>
>> Don't use submodules: the scripts which build the GNU ELPA packages from
>> the elpa.git repository don't know what to do with them.
>
>
>> As explained in elpa/README, you can either add your packages as
>> subdirectories in the main branch (typically using something like "git
>> subtree" or "git merge -s subtree") or add them as *branches* (called
>> externals/<pkg>).  They also need to be mentioned in the
>> elpa/externals-list file (for externals/<pkg> it's indispensible, for
>> subtrees it's just good practice).
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
>>
>
> Ok. Thanks for the information. The previous changes have been essentially
> reverted. I've added one of the four packages, test-simple, in what I hope
> is an acceptable way: as a subtree.
>
> Please double check that test-simple has been added properly. When that is
> done properly,  I'll do the others (load-relative, loc-changes, and
> realgud) in the corresponding fashion.
>
> I make mistakes. That's why I work on debuggers.
>
>
>>
>> > ---
>> >  .gitmodules            |   12 ++++++++++++
>> >  packages/load-relative |    1 +
>> >  packages/loc-changes   |    1 +
>> >  packages/realgud       |    1 +
>> >  packages/test-simple   |    1 +
>> >  5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> > diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
>> > new file mode 100644
>> > index 0000000..6d90d7e
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/.gitmodules
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
>> > +[submodule "packages/test-simple"]
>> > +     path = packages/test-simple
>> > +     url = https://github.com/rocky/emacs-test-simple.git
>> > +[submodule "packages/load-relative"]
>> > +     path = packages/load-relative
>> > +     url = https://github.com/rocky/emacs-load-relative.git
>> > +[submodule "packages/loc-changes"]
>> > +     path = packages/loc-changes
>> > +     url = https://github.com/rocky/emacs-loc-changes.git
>> > +[submodule "packages/realgud"]
>> > +     path = packages/realgud
>> > +     url = https://github.com/rocky/emacs-dbgr.git
>> > diff --git a/packages/load-relative b/packages/load-relative
>> > new file mode 160000
>> > index 0000000..15ffaa9
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/packages/load-relative
>> > @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> > +Subproject commit 15ffaa9ebf1b7bbfcc307d1716eec135253b3b8d
>> > diff --git a/packages/loc-changes b/packages/loc-changes
>> > new file mode 160000
>> > index 0000000..8447baf
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/packages/loc-changes
>> > @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> > +Subproject commit 8447baff7cb4839ef8d1d747a14e5da85d0cee5b
>> > diff --git a/packages/realgud b/packages/realgud
>> > new file mode 160000
>> > index 0000000..d811316
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/packages/realgud
>> > @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> > +Subproject commit d811316e6a0f4eeee8a1347f504c196c86baa2cb
>> > diff --git a/packages/test-simple b/packages/test-simple
>> > new file mode 160000
>> > index 0000000..75eea25
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/packages/test-simple
>> > @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>> > +Subproject commit 75eea25bae04d8e5e3e835a2770f02f0ff4602c4
>>
>
>