Re: Drop tarball releases and go ELPA only

[Tassilo Horn]

Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Arash,

>> I can rename master to auctex-13 which is actually a deletion of
>> master and pushing of a new branch auctex-13 which is identical to
>> the old master.  Then everybody who has a checkout of master will
>> have to run "git branch --set-upstream-to=auctex-13 master" so that
>> his local master branch tracks auctex-13.  Not sure if that's
>> actually needed because that branch won't get any updates anyway.
>> But it would get rid of the error on "git pull" that origin/master is
>> gone...
>
> One could also do "git branch -m master auctex-13" to track the name
> change locally before the "--set-upstream-to" part, right?

Yes, before or after or never, whatever one prefers.

>> Will do tomorrow!
>
> Thanks, I merged master to main, hopefully for the last time.

The new auctex-13 branch is up but "master" is still there because
savannah won't let be delete it.  I guess it's protected which makes
sense (well, until this point in time).  I'll contact the admins.

Bye,
  Tassilo