It looks like some changes left behind by a half-done Pkg.tag are causing
this problem. These steps should get things back to normal, and publish the
new tag.
1. rm METADATA/ArbFloats -rf
2. git checkout METADATA/ArbFloats # if this directory did exist before you
tried to tag
3. I also suggest you then make sure you're on the latest commit on
JuliaLang/METADATA.jl repository:
git fetch origin
git checkout -b arb-floats origin/metadata-v2
this is required if your previous failed attempt left behind a commit.
4. Note that if you tried PkgDev.tag previously, you will have a tag in
your ArbFloats repository. You will need to remove that with git tag
--delete vX.Y.Z before performing PkgDev.tag(...) to get you the correct
new tag.
5. You're good to do PkgDev.tag("ArbFloats", :minor)
6. Finally push your new tag to your ArbFloats repository -- git push
origin vX.Y.Z
7. make a METADATA PR from your fork of METADATA.jl
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Jeffrey Sarnoff <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I have yet to enter my package into the Julia ecosystem by publishing it
> or manually forking METADATA etc.
> As I was about to do that, I managed to destroy my local METADATA for the
> package. I can, by erasing the entry in METADATA (& cache & lib)
> use PkgDev to re-register the package, but when I try to tag it, it gets
> all upset
>
> julia> PkgDev.tag("ArbFloats") # or julia> PkgDev.tag("ArbFloats",:minor)
>
> ERROR: METADATA/ArbFloats is dirty – commit or stash changes to tag
> in #36 at /home/jas/.julia/v0.5/PkgDev/src/entry.jl:223 [inlined]
> in with(::PkgDev.Entry.##36#44{String}, ::Base.LibGit2.GitRepo) at
> ./libgit2/types.jl:638
> in tag(::String, ::Symbol, ::Bool, ::String) at
> /home/jas/.julia/v0.5/PkgDev/src/entry.jl:222
> in
> (::Base.Pkg.Dir.##2#3{Array{Any,1},PkgDev.Entry.#tag,Tuple{String,Symbol}})()
> at ./pkg/dir.jl:31
> in
> cd(::Base.Pkg.Dir.##2#3{Array{Any,1},PkgDev.Entry.#tag,Tuple{String,Symbol}},
> ::String) at ./file.jl:59
> in #cd#1(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::Function, ::String,
> ::Vararg{Any,N}) at ./pkg/dir.jl:31
> in tag(::String, ::Symbol) at /home/jas/.julia/v0.5/PkgDev/
> src/PkgDev.jl:47
>
>
>
> What is the remedy?
>
>
>
