From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Don't add tags to ELPA packages -- documentation? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272592 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >> K=C3=A9vin Le Gouguec [2021-08-18 16:26:33] wrote: >>> Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> Not sure where they come from. >>> >>> FWIW, this can be examined with Git, e.g.: >>> >>> $ git branch --remote --contains 0.10 >>> origin/externals/eglot >>> $ git branch --remote --contains 1.3.0 >>> origin/externals/disk-usage >> >> Thanks, but by "where" I meant "which kind of operations". >> IOW, how did they end up there? > > Developers of those packages would have had to explicitly push them to > elpa.git. How does this look? --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-patch Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=elpa-mention-tags.diff diff --git a/README b/README index 8a549a6e71..4377f6a43b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -212,6 +212,17 @@ if it is not your own code, make sure the author has signed the relevant copyright papers (for non-trivial contributions), and indicate the author correctly in the commit. +** Tags + +Git tags should not be pushed to the =elpa.git= repository. Git tags +are global throughout a repository, and it is highly likely that tags +in one package will clash with those in others. Furthermore, tags +play no functional role in ELPA repositories. + +Developers are welcome to continue using tags locally: so long as they +are not pushed to the public repository, no conflicts will occur. Git +will not push tags without being explicitly told to do so. + ** External branches A copy of the code of every package is kept in the =elpa.git= repository --=-=-=--