Re: elpa.git and `new-master`

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:53:19 -0500
>> 
>> > Can you explain what does this mean in practice for those who, like
>> > me, just maintain the Git repository without installing the packages
>> > via package.el?
>> 
>> Could you clarify what you mean by "maintain the Git repository"?
>
> It's just the result of cloning the ELPA repository.  I'm not really
> sure what kind of example is needed.
>
>> A normal clone of the elpa.git repository will include all the packages,
>> as before, none of them in `master` or `new-master`, tho: all of them in
>> externals/[PKGNAME] branches.
>> 
>>     make packages/[PKGNAME]
>> 
>> will bring a specific package into its `packages/[PKGNAME]` subdirectory
>> (by way of `git worktree`).
>
> So I will have to use 'make' to get every single package?  That's
> inconvenient.

There should be a 'make all' to handle this case.


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