Re: Reconsider defaults for use-package-vc-prefer-newest

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: suhailsingh247@gmail.com,  meedstrom@runbox.eu,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   tonyzorman@mailbox.org
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:14:26 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> This is the fix:
> >
> > Can you explain in plain English what this does?
> 
> Sure, each package has a description object (search for "(cl-defstruct
> (package-desc" in package.el), with some fixed attributes like name,
> version, dependencies and others that are stored in an alist.  The
> commit used to create a package is one such attribute stored in the
> "extras" slot of a package-desc.  My chance modifies the package
> description given by the ELPA server and updates the :commit field to
> store the commit that was checked out when the package was built
> locally.  I hope that is clear enough?

Yes, thanks.  What was the :commit field storing before the change?