leuven65/use-package-ensure-git-repo

Add keyword ":ensure-git-repo" to Emacs "use-package" to support install ELisp package from GitHub

use-package-ensure-git-repo

About

“use-package-ensure-git-repo” is an extension for the Emacs package “use-package” https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package.

It add new keyword ”:ensure-git-repo” to “use-package”, to support to install elisp package from git repository.

Installation

Clone this git repo to “${user-emacs-directory}/packages/use-package-ensure-git-repo”, and add folowing lines to your Emacs config file:

(use-package use-package-ensure-git-repo
  :defer t
  :ensure nil ; it is github package
  ;; If the path is relative, it is expanded within `user-emacs-directory'
  :load-path "packages/use-package-ensure-git-repo"
  :custom
  ;; (use-package-ensure-git-repo-always-update nil)
  :init
  (let ((pkg-name "use-package-ensure-git-repo"))
    (ignore-errors
      (package-generate-autoloads pkg-name
                                  (expand-file-name (concat "packages/" pkg-name)
                                                    user-emacs-directory)))
    (load (concat pkg-name "-autoloads.el")))
  )

Usage

Use the keyword ”:ensure-git-repo” in use-package to specify which git repo is used for installation

Such as, if to install Emacs package “fd-dired” from GitHub repo https://github.com/leuven65/fd-dired, it can be configured as:

(use-package fd-dired
  :ensure-git-repo "https://github.com/leuven65/fd-dired"
  )

It will:

1. clone the git repo for the 1st time, or pull from the remote git repo.
   The local directory is ”${user-emacs-directory}/packages/${package-name}”
2. generate ”*-autoloads.el” file.
3. byte compile all the ”.el” file.
4. Add ”${user-emacs-directory}/packages/${package-name}” to load-path.
5. load the autoload file ”*-autoloads.el”.

Variable ”use-package-ensure-git-repo-always-update”

By default, ”use-package-ensure-git-repo-always-update” is “t”, so that ”:ensure-git-repo” will pull from the remote git repo and update local git repo. You can set to “nil” to disable updating.