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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2018-06-21 17:27:23 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2018-06-21 17:29:17 -0700
commit63888f319c5597226e506bbe1c615f506ad09f77 (patch)
tree124e2e367f6a68bb2cbe9776c859c9cce765a1bd /README
parenta5d74b0ef648c246db23cd404669957600e4d67f (diff)
Warn about transfer.fsckObjects
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@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ packages/ directory. You can then add that directory, e.g. with:
** To deploy the package repository as a remotely-accessible archive:
- git clone .../elpa
+ git -c fetch.fsckObjects=false clone .../elpa
(cd elpa; git clone .../emacs) #If you want to generate :core packages.
mkdir build
cd build
@@ -278,7 +278,9 @@ packages/ directory. You can then add that directory, e.g. with:
This deploys the packages to the staging/ directory (sibling of "build").
Unlike "make", this makes a full copy of the packages, tars up
-multi-file packages, and doesn't byte-compile any files.
+multi-file packages, and doesn't byte-compile any files. The
+fetch.fsckObjects setting works around a glitch in the ELPA repository
+<https://debbugs.gnu.org/22690>.
** To access a deployed archive