Re: Git version of ELPA

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 12.08.2013 04:10, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I imagine that's going to complicate the merging procedure.
>
> After having tried the "subtree" merging a few times, I think it'll
> be manageable (and is a problem which won't recur, so I'm not too
> worried).

So, you've tried merging commits from upstream that include files not 
present in ELPA? And splitting commits from ELPA to push them to 
upstream repositories? And both work fine?

> Of course, if there's a better Git tree available, I'll happily switch
> to that one.

A little while back Jorgen wrote a recipe how to do that: 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-03/msg00235.html

I've yet to wrap my head around this git subtree business properly, but 
if it helps, I can try to follow it myself, and publish the result.

It raises a few questions, though. Up until now, the elpa branch has 
been receiving its contents in preprocessed form:
1) Some files and directories removed.
2) -pkg.el files pre-generated and included.

For example, just compare

http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git/tree/dbb5d60608ae6b99910b0c374f82b63fde526abf:/packages/yasnippet

and

https://github.com/capitaomorte/yasnippet/

My question is, will elpa publishing script work if packages/yasnippet 
contains (just) the files from the upstream repository? I imagine 
there'll have to be some adaptation.