Re: ELPA commit freeze

[Stefan Monnier]

> So we could check out the version before externals were introduces, erase
> all their respective directories, then apply all commits made to the
> "administrative" part of the tree, and then add the subtrees properly. Some
> cleanup commits would have to be re-applied, but there's not a lot of them.

We could try to do that.  I'm far form convinced it's worth the trouble.

> If it's too late, I suppose we can live with that, but this way we a) give
> up an easy way to sync back, b) accept that we'll see each non-upstream
> commit in externally maintained packages's histories twice: once for when
> it's made, second after it's cherry-picked, committed to upstream and then
> merged back into elpa.

Not that "git subtree push" also duplicates the commits.  It just
automates the process.  So, it's only a) that's lost.


        Stefan