Re: Confusion about new format of ELPA repo

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Maybe each package is now meant to be worked on in a separate branch?

Yes, every package in ELPA is now on its own branch, and only the files
from that package is present in that branch.  To take an example at
random:

larsi@xo:~/src/emacs/elpa$ git checkout externals/ack
Branch 'externals/ack' set up to track remote branch 'externals/ack' from 
'origin'.
Switched to a new branch 'externals/ack'
larsi@xo:~/src/emacs/elpa$ ls
ack.el  csv-mode.elc  packages  pcmpl-ack.el  README.rst

If you have an ELPA checkout from before the structure was changed, it's
perhaps best to do a fresh checkout now to get rid of a bunch of
artefacts from the old layout.

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