XPost: linux.debian.maint.emacsen
Hello,
On Fri 27 Dec 2024 at 01:20am -08, Xiyue Deng wrote:
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
Hello,
On Thu 26 Dec 2024 at 03:23pm -08, Xiyue Deng wrote:
Package: dh-make-elpa
Version: 0.19.5
Severity: wishlist
Currently dh-make-elpa suggests using "upstream" as upstream remote name >>> in its manpage. This works, but could be confusing as DEP-14 also
suggests using "upstream/latest" as the branch name for upstream repo.
I would like to suggest using "upstreamvcs" as upstream remote name
instead, which is also used by dh-make.
I'd prefer to leave it as it is. The 'vcs' in 'upstreamvcs' is
redundant, because of course it's a VCS -- it's a git remote.
Right. It's just that this name clash with "upstream" or
"upstream/latest" is kind of inconvenient, especially in magit (I should
have mentioned this in the report) that when you try to switch to a
branch and as you try to auto-complete for "upstream", it shows all
remote branches starting with upstream as well, which can be confusing.
Using a different name helps a little, and I guess this could be why
dh-make started suggesting "upstreamvcs". It doesn't have to be that
name, of course. Anything different from "upstream" helps :)
Thanks for explaining. I think with git you just have to deal with this
across the board. For example dgit-repos uses a remote branches
namespace called 'dgit' and the branches are 'dgit/sid', 'dgit/bookworm'
etc., so you frequently have to deal with 'dgit/dgit/sid'.
So, I'm not sure trying to help in this way is a job for dh_make_elpa.
If someone regularly runs into this problem, they can just use a
different one themselves, the manpage name is just a recommendation,
after all.
(I'm a bit biased here because I don't think we should be maintaining
upstream branches at all, for most packages, as you know from reading
some of my dgit tutorial manpages.)
--
Sean Whitton
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