Re: elpa.git and `new-master`

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 15.12.2020 20:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > A normal clone of the elpa.git repository will include all the packages,
> > as before, none of them in `master` or `new-master`, tho: all of them in
> > externals/[PKGNAME] branches.
> >
> >      make packages/[PKGNAME]
> >
> > will bring a specific package into its `packages/[PKGNAME]` subdirectory
> > (by way of `git worktree`).
> So I will have to use 'make' to get every single package?  That's
> inconvenient.

Or you could 'git checkout externals/<package-name>' to switch to the 
branch containing the package.

Not sure which one is more convenient, but the latter might be faster.