Re: Confusion about new format of ELPA repo

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Aha, got it. I'm running a "git fetch" that looks like it's going to
>> take a while, so I'll see what the new landscape looks like after lunch.
>> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> You can also do:
>
>    git clone --single-branch -b externals/ack .../elpa.git
>
> which should only download the data for that branch.

Well I have several packages to work on, and had a long lunch to get
through, so I brought the whole thing down. This works nicely! I've
never done worktree-inside-a-repo before, but all the tooling handles it
well, and I didn't even have to change my load-path additions.

Thanks,
Eric