1 NOTES ON THE EMACS PACKAGE ARCHIVE
3 The GNU Emacs package archive, at elpa.gnu.org, is managed using a Git
4 repository named "elpa", hosted on Savannah. To check it out:
6 git clone git://bzr.sv.gnu.org/emacs/elpa
8 git remote set-url --push origin git+ssh://bzr.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/emacs/elpa
9 [create task branch for edits, etc.]
11 Changes to this branch propagate to elpa.gnu.org via a "deployment" script run
12 daily. This script (which is kept in elpa/admin/update-archive.sh) generates
13 the content visible at http://elpa.gnu.org/packages.
15 A new package is released as soon as the "version number" of that package is
16 changed. So you can use `elpa' to work on a package without fear of releasing
17 those changes prematurely. And once the code is ready, just bump the
18 version number to make a new release of the package.
20 It is easy to use the elpa branch to deploy a "local" copy of the
21 package archive. For details, see the README file in the elpa branch.