Installing borg as secondary package manager : clone epkgs issue and git staging issue.

[rileyrg]

reference : https://emacsmirror.net/manual/borg/Use-as-secondary-package-manager.html#Use-as-secondary-package-manager

1. observation (possibly my setup specific) : When I tried to install/assimilate my first package, in this case json-navigator, borg prompted me to git clone epkgs. Unfortunately the buffer it prompts in in isn't interactive. I killed the buffer and cloned ekpgs directly from the command line.

2. Git : so I have assimilated my first package as outlined above, but git is confusing me a little. Since I use an exclusionary .gitignore for my existing emacs config, I enabled borg and borg/* - it insisted on that in order to assimiliate. If I dont, I see

The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
borg/json-navigator
hint: Use -f if you really want to add them.
hint: Turn this message off by running
hint: "git config advice.addIgnoredFile false"

So in my .gitignore

!borg
!borg/*

I'm assuming here that we do indeed want to add them. But I'm not 100% sure as I don't use git submodules until now.

After this I can assimilate fine:

(09:14:27) Building json-navigator

Initializing drones...done (1 drones in 0.004s)
Package cl is deprecated
Creating /home/rgr/Dropbox/homefiles/directories/development/projects/emacs/emacs-config/borg/json-navigator/json-navigator-autoloads.el...
Compiling /home/rgr/Dropbox/homefiles/directories/development/projects/emacs/emacs-config/borg/json-navigator/json-navigator.el...
Done (Total of 1 file compiled)

Process emacs ... --eval (borg-build "json-navigator") finished

My magit status is now (excuse the screenshot - I'm unable to copy selected region as text from magit status)

If I try to stage unstaged changes The borg module won't stage. And expanding, I see this,

I'm guessing this is a trivial git issue I don't understand regarding borg directory's .gitignore status. Thanks for the help.

[tarsius]

1. The "Clone https://github.com/emacsmirror/epkgs.git to ~/.emacs.d/epkgs/? " prompt? What do you mean by "isn't interactive"? Anyway, sounds like a fluke and you got it going.

2. Yeah, that's expected and your approach to addressing seems appropriate. But there's a second step: (goto 3)

3. While the cursor is on "modified borg/json-navigator" press enter to go to the submodule. You will probably "learn" that there is a new untracked file "json-navigator.elc", and some others. Setup a global gitignore rule for that as described at the end of https://emacsmirror.net/manual/borg/Bootstrapping-using-a-seed.html.

[rileyrg]

The "Clone https://github.com/emacsmirror/epkgs.git to ~/.emacs.d/epkgs/? " prompt? What do you mean by "isn't interactive"? Anyway, sounds like a fluke and you got it going.

It means its displayed in a buffer asking for a "yes or no" but there is no yes/no prompt. Non-interactive. I tried from scratch twice and both times it failed at this point. So I cloned from the command line.

While the cursor is on "modified borg/json-navigator" press enter to go to the submodule. You will probably "learn" that there is a new untracked file "json-navigator.elc", and some others. Setup a global gitignore rule for that as described at the end of https://emacsmirror.net/manual/borg/Bootstrapping-using-a-seed.html.

. For this reason it is useful to ignore these outputs globally, for example in your ~/.config/git/ignore file:

I had added something similar to .git/ignore/exclude. Did you mean exclude? I had a quick google and exclude seems to be the file for this functionality.

Anyway : sods law. I assimilated two larger packages in lsp-mode and magit - and they both worked. It seems that json-navigator is the exception in my test cases and that and only that cause this issue so far. Sigh.

So, just about up and running now. Thank you.

[tarsius]

I had added something similar to .git/ignore/exclude. Did you mean exclude?

No, I mean $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. See gitignore manpage.

[rileyrg]

Aha. OK Good time to move to an XDG_CONFIG based git config. Working. Thank you.