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emacscollective / borg

Assimilate Emacs packages as Git submodules
https://emacsmirror.net/manual/borg
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Location of the borg directory #31

Closed eflanigan00 closed 6 years ago

eflanigan00 commented 6 years ago

I have not used the package yet but it looks very promising. Is it possible to configure this to work in a folder: .emacs.d/borg/ instead of .emacs.d

I have at least 50 packages and having them in the .emacs.d directory isn't something I want to manage.

tarsius commented 6 years ago

I plan to make it easier to use borg alongside package.el. For an early draft see https://github.com/emacscollective/borg/pull/27. And additionally I started working on borg again just today. I have concentrated on other issue so far but maybe I will get to this tomorrow.

eflanigan00 commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the great work! No rush.

tarsius commented 6 years ago

Is it possible to configure this to work in a folder: .emacs.d/borg/ instead of .emacs.d

That is possible, but doesn't have the effect you are probably after. ~/.emacs.d/borg/ then "becomes" ~/.emacs.d/ and you have to start Emacs using emacs -Q --load ~/.emacs.d/borg/. This feature is more intended to be used like emacs -Q --load /tmp/lets-try-borg.

But you can use borg and package alongside in ~/.emacs.d. borg installs packages in lib/ and package.el in elpa/. borg doesn't take control over other files in the repository so you can just make ~/.emacs.d the top-level of the repository as expected by borg without messing with package.el packages and other things. You probably want to add some entries to .gitignore though, beginning with /elpa/.

tarsius commented 6 years ago

Closing as a duplicate of #12, but feel free commenting here.

eflanigan00 commented 6 years ago

If you can make borg work in a directory I would love to try it. At this point I'm not willing to place 50+ repos in my .emacs.d/ directory. I would be willing to place them in a .emacs.d/borg/ directory