Re: ELPA contributions?

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:
>> I share the same feeling. The bit that scares me is pushing to ELPA.
>> Everything else is disposable. If I pull the wrong thing (like
>> elpa/master) to local, then I can just delete and start again. If I push
>> the wrong thing to phillord/dash.el that's more of a pain, but not a
>> disaster. But if I push my local master to the elpa master branch
>> (rather than externals) I do not know what will happen, but I suspect it
>> will be bad.
>
> This is git. It's pretty hard to mess up.

Git is many things but "pretty hard to mess up" is not one of them, in
my experience.

> In particular, you can't push anything that's not a fast forward unless you
> --force, and you usually can't --force push to master. Again, I'm not at
> the pc ATM, but I'm pretty sure that's the case for elpa.git. Hell,
> emacs.git won't even let me push if it doesn't like the commit message.

That's reassuring anyway, although I don't know a good way of testing it
(safely!).

Phil