Re: git-fetch for emacs-auctex?

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:

> Probably yes, but I don't think that being 1 version late out of
> principle is a good idea.  Perhaps we can get ELPA to always serve
> everything as .tar.lz?  Otherwise let's consider mirrors or SWH.

Also, not all packages have mirrors elsewhere. Of course SWH could work.

> You should be able to point to the commit in question, e.g.
> 3e163e5d0f2b89a4ad1542b6bd68f8c8fcf3f096.  That said, the ELPA repo
> doesn't seem too well annotated :P

There are no tags in the ELPA repository, but new releases are triggered
by a bump of "Version:" keyword. So, it is technically possible to map
a version to a commit hash by looking for such changes. This has been
suggested already in bug#46489.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou