Re: Making AUCTeX ELPA releases from the master branch

[Stefan Monnier]

> So I could just replace packages/auctex with some other clone of
> auctex.git?

Yes.

>> So your first and third steps above can happen at some other time.
> Alright.  But I currently don't understand how "make packages/auctex"
> knows which commit to check out.

The first `make packages/auctex` just does

    git worktree add packages/auctex externals/auctex

you can `git clone .../auctex.git` there instead.

> And nowhere in the elpa repository do I find some statement that for
> auctex the externals/auctex branch in elpa.git is to be used instead
> of the main or master branch of auctex.git.

It's always built from `externals/<PKG>`.
The sync between those branches and an upstream (according to `:url`) is
performed separately by another cron job (it could run on another
machine, tho it currently doesn't).

> [1] It just occurred to me that in all mails I've written about an
>     externals/elpa branch which is actually externals/auctex.

🙂


        Stefan