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

[Phil Sainty]

On 2021-08-18 09:51, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> 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?

FWIW if you configure your external repo as the source for ELPA to fetch
your package from, then there are no problems at all.

For example, https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/delight.git/refs/
has version tags from 1.0 .. 1.7 and is included in GNU ELPA with
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/elpa-packages?id=06e26055b3377#n119

ELPA does not fetch the tags from the external repo, and those tags are
not needed within the ELPA repository, so it's fine.


-Phil