From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artur Malabarba Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] master 872014e: Prevent accidental deletion of .git Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:38:45 +0000 Message-ID: <1oivb9bxh4a.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20151109013124.17711.29422@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83y4e7ma0n.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447087150 8683 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2015 16:39:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 16:39:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fgallina@gnu.org, fitzsim@fitzsim.org, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 09 17:39:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvpT9-0000ni-M0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 17:38:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvpT9-0003Cy-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:38:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvpT3-0003AV-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:38:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvpSy-0008JJ-BT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:38:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wm0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::229]:37457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvpSy-0008JE-3n; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:38:48 -0500 Original-Received: by wmww144 with SMTP id w144so40038287wmw.0; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:38:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=2Lv7/6kg8G66iWhtKwLWpc0JGUTSXtnO8FgBC63c6/E=; b=parWg01tMS69u9VF/1VVQBsqOqg9MTFuYFhpIToWwcXtgOJc3ksOLJYDy4OmfvkaSn m4jhk65vhsZMuU3jQXoFcRoU2ILdwDiQLIMP2aXR00AyAwQUEBucEOv7iE0tJbUuBigO M5dwmpFLY+7OT7T8YFLySPoqjFXmbetnw/n97JVq8JbhEzVsFAsOelxD9RG1bUlwbdJb 4bZdHJ86Lv5BT2Ldjx+A/c6fC2sRfTwvRtwVuTKaiXcWWK2i3eC7jx2FqXjxkmJ6F+qC aa/0L1yqOwMP2qOiRbyLHaVeqHb0fjNhj3s7bjvpUho94E4mo92PYpjDwfJpcA14PYFu 1oxA== X-Received: by 10.194.22.229 with SMTP id h5mr36370805wjf.17.1447087127406; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:38:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from it055607.gmail.com (it055607.users.bris.ac.uk. [137.222.30.198]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i18sm12791508wmf.6.2015.11.09.08.38.46 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:38:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83y4e7ma0n.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:07:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c09::229 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193728 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Right, Fabian installed its code already, but I found out at that point >> that the way it works (i.e copying files from emacs.git) is problematic >> in various ways: it should instead setup symlinks. > > Symlinks will cause problems on MS-Windows. IIUC, this would only be a problem if you want to build a mirror of the Gelpa repository on a Windows machine. It wouldn't affect Windows users trying to install packages from elpa.gnu.org.