From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Does Elpa welcome themes? Or should those stay in Melpa? Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:53:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20150116195627.GL20877@ahungry.com> <20150127050750.GL32271@ahungry.com> <87k307by87.fsf@ahungry.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422417236 11900 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2015 03:53:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:53:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Matthew Carter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 04:53:56 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 1YGJhS-0003Sq-5E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 04:53:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGJhR-0004UU-Pt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:53:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGJhG-0004UP-FV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:53:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGJhB-0000xr-GC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:53:42 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:37374) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGJhB-0000xm-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:53:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t0S3rZuM007773; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:53:35 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 88336AE122; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:53:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87k307by87.fsf@ahungry.com> (Matthew Carter's message of "Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:27:52 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5199=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5199> : inlines <1966> : streams <1380606> : uri <1844092> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:181875 Archived-At: > to allow updates via 'git merge -s subtree ahungry-theme-branch' I've used "git merge -s subtree ..." myself and that's what I'd recommend. But you can use whatever suits you: you'll be the one who needs to keep the elpa.git code up-to-date. > Is there a reason to use git read-tree and keeping the remote in a local > branch under GNU Elpa that I'm missing? I don't see a reason to keep the remote in a local branch, tho I'm not sure what "local branch" means here. Stefan