Re: Don't add tags to ELPA packages -- documentation?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>
>>>> Can I patch the README to tell developers not to use tags at all?
>>>
>>> Sure.
>>> Indeed tags are not used in elpa.git and nongnu.git.
>>>
>>> Of course, you can still use tags there if you want, like in any
>>> other repository, but you're better off giving them names that include
>>> the relevant package's name, like `ebdb-0.7`.
>>
>> Good to know! I don't suppose you know what happens when we add ELPA or
>> nongnu ELPA as a new remote to a repo already containing tags that will
>> conflict with ELPA tags? Do you know at what stage git will bark at us?
>> Anyway, I can probably figure this out myself, but inquiring minds on
>> Matrix want to know...
>
> Well, that mind would be mine.  :)  Yes, I'd like to submit some of my
> packages (including some that are already on MELPA) to ELPA or nongnu
> ELPA at some point, but I tag my stable releases with tags like "0.6.1",
> which MELPA uses for MELPA Stable packages.  It seems like I'd have to
> either delete the tags or rename them with the package name as a prefix,
> and AFAIK either one would be incompatible with MELPA Stable.  Of
> course, I guess there'd be no need to be on MELPA anymore in that case,
> but having to fix all the tags would be a hassle, and then I'd have to
> break an old habit.  I guess one can't have everything, but it'd be
> great if this could be "solved."  The idea of sharing tags with other
> repos that aren't part of my own repos feels a little like a Twilight
> Zone episode, if there were an Emacs edition: they're not there, but
> they're there...  :)

My first inkling of this issue came when I ran "git tag -l" in my EBDB
repo, and it returned hyperbole- and eglot-related tags. Talk about
Twilight Zone... I was planning to order up an exorcism on my repository.