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NOTES ON THE EMACS PACKAGE ARCHIVE
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The GNU Emacs package archive, at elpa.gnu.org, is managed using a Git
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repository named "elpa", hosted on Savannah. To check it out:
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git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs/elpa
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cd elpa
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make setup
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That leaves the elpa/packages directory empty; you must check out the
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ones you want.
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If you wish to check out all the packages into the packages directory,
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you can run the command:
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make worktrees
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You can check out a specific package <pkgname> into the packages
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directory with:
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make packages/<pkgname>
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Changes to this repository propagate to elpa.gnu.org via a
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"deployment" script run daily. This script generates the content
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visible at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages.
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A new package is released as soon as the "version number" of that
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package is changed. So you can use 'elpa' to work on a package
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without fear of releasing those changes prematurely. And once the
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code is ready, just bump the version number to make a new release of
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the package.
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It is easy to use the elpa branch to deploy a "local" copy of the
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package archive. For details, see the README file in the elpa branch.
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