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

[Stefan Monnier]

Kévin Le Gouguec [2021-08-18 21:43:32] wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>> Thanks, but by "where" I meant "which kind of operations".
>>> IOW, how did they end up there?
>> Developers of those packages would have had to explicitly push them to
>> elpa.git.
> Mmm, IIUC any of "git clone", "git fetch" and "git pull" can fetch tags
> if not used with "--no-tags".  A quick look at elpa-admin.el shows some
> occurrences of "pull" without "--no-tags", but I haven't looked hard
> enough at the GNU ELPA machinery to figure if those could have fetched
> the tags we observe.

But elpa-admin.el is not run inside `elpa.git`, only inside clones
of it.  So yes, we can get tags within clones of `elpa.git` but for them
to reach `elpa.git` itself (the repository on git.sv.gnu.org) someone
needs to push them there, AFAIK.


        Stefan