From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA contributions? Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:27:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1wjt8yh.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87612g5tmx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87io6cl0hx.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87lhb8ulex.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87lhb7kdt5.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444728490 11912 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2015 09:28:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:28:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eric Abrahamsen , emacs-devel To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 13 11:28:09 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 1ZlvsP-0002Mm-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:28:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlvsO-00071O-Ld for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:28:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zlvrf-0006ph-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:27:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlvrM-0004CP-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:39681) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlvrL-00047h-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlvrL-0001wg-D1; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:27:03 +0100 Original-Received: from jangai.ncl.ac.uk ([10.66.67.223] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlvrK-00089i-Sq; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:27:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:54:57 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 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:191438 Archived-At: Artur Malabarba 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