[aur-general] AUR4, git, subtrees ELI5?

Eli Schwartz eschwartz93 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 12 02:54:56 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Phillip Smith <fukawi2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have already seen your work (thanks by the way, those hooks look
> great), but unless I'm missing something there, there's nothing to
> help me understand how to use subtrees etc in this scenario.
>
> I have Googled and read various blogs, maillist posts and GitHub's
> help page on the subject but I can't related any of it to how I should
> be doing it with AUR4. The Arch wiki seems rather desolate on the
> topic at the moment too; that would be the best place for such
> information I guess.
>

Use the `./aurpublish` script. It controls everything. Today I added a
"speedup" option to save the subtree (it duplicates all those commits
though).

My goal is that *everything* should be abstracted and just leave you with a
simple repo of folders. :)

-- Eli Schwartz


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