From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] I regret using subtree Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:53:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <837fcxlbay.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh1d2wg5.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83eg75jk5h.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh1cb6p0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oa5sa176.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <874m7kmkcm.fsf@gmx.de> <871t2o6t94.fsf@gmx.de> <87wpkf6pup.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87poq6iweb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87shv0uy3w.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87oa5ouf6x.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87y44qu40k.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87twfetz6s.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87innet48i.fsf_-_@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1489366491 17922 195.159.176.226 (13 Mar 2017 00:54:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:54:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 13 01:54:46 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cnEG5-00046C-DB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 01:54:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnEGB-0007CU-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58221) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnEFS-0007Aq-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:54:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnEFP-0005an-3S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54566 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnEFO-0005Zv-Sk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cnEFG-0007bC-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 01:53:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:AMbttashPJfegqrfKLD9aduAtsE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212969 Archived-At: > Okay, I officially regret having used the subtree approach to squash > Gnorb into Elpa, and if at all possible I would like to abandon this and > move to just working in the Elpa tree. > Do I have to do anything magic? My understanding of the `git subtree' > command is that it isn't actually a "real" command, it's just some > behind-the-scenes jiggery-pokery with merge and cherry-pick and > read-tree. Ie, I should just be able to declare "I'm done with this" and > carry on making commits directly into Elpa. Is that correct? That is correct. [ Of course, if you want, you can also "git rm -r packages/gnorb" and then add an externals/gnorb branch. ] > The only thing I'll regret is the github issue tracker, and for that > reason I'm tacking this on to a thread from last year, about making > `report-emacs-bug' collect package information before sending a bug > report, and cc'ing maintainers. I still think this is a good idea, and I > think my patch, if not ideal, is good enough, so I'm reviving it. What > say you all? The patch seems OK, except it should put the Cc in the "X-Debbugs-Cc:" header (so that the maintainer gets the email with the bug-number rather than email before assigned a bug-number). Stefan