Re: [elpa] master 6a77459 1/2: New gud replacement package: realgud (a front end interface to

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

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

As mentioned for "subtree", the info in externals-list is just used as
documentation (basically, it's useful to humans).

Otherwise, "make externals" can used, which will use externals-list to
setup the packages in the "externals/<foo>" branches as
submodule-like subdirectories.



        Stefan


> 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
>>> 
>> 
>>