Re: elpa.git and `new-master`

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:53:19 -0500
> 
> > Can you explain what does this mean in practice for those who, like
> > me, just maintain the Git repository without installing the packages
> > via package.el?
> 
> Could you clarify what you mean by "maintain the Git repository"?

It's just the result of cloning the ELPA repository.  I'm not really
sure what kind of example is needed.

> 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.