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   1 NOTES ON THE EMACS PACKAGE ARCHIVE
   2
   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:
   5
   6   git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs/elpa
   7   cd elpa
   8   git remote set-url --push origin git+ssh://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/emacs/elpa
   9   [create task branch for edits, etc.]
  10
  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.
  14
  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.
  19
  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.