Re: policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23.01.2021 11:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I've played with 'git submodules' on Windows mingw64. You can pass a
> > local ELPA repository to 'git submodules add', but it copies the whole
> > thing into the emacs repository:
> It is quite clear that ELPA will need some changes on its side to
> support this integration.  One such change is to have branches that
> roughly correspond to Emacs's 'master' and 'release' branches, because
> we would want to have only the stable branches of the ELPA packages to
> be visible on the Emacs's release branch.

Or the package maintainers could bump the submodule refs manually from 
time to time.

> > There is not a way to specify the branch in the 'git submodule add'
> > command
> AFAIU, you can do that in the .gitmodules file.

'man git submodule' mentions the -b option:

add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference 
<repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>]