Re: policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> If the submodules cannot be worktrees, then I think we have to
>> abandon this approach.
>
> I'm not sure.  There are alternatives to using worktrees, so the fact
> that some of us use worktrees in some workflows should not necessarily
> veto the submodule solution to integrating ELPA into Emacs, because
> this integration is more important than personal workflows.
>
> But maybe I misunderstand what you mean by "submodule cannot be
> worktrees", because AFAIU Phillip raised an issue that is a different
> one: whether submodules live well with different branches being
> checked out in different worktrees -- there's nothing there to suggest
> that submodules themselves should be worktrees.

Just so.

The version of git (2.25.1) on my laptop reports worktree and submodules
as being broken.

And the 2.30 also the same https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree

There are ways around all of this, of course, but this use of submodules
will break my workflow at least.

Phil