Subject: Re: bug#71445: colorful-mode package stuck at version 1.0.0

From: "Elijah G." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:33:28 -0600

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Stefan Kangas [2024-06-09 11:32:09] wrote:
>> "Elijah G." <[email-masked]> writes:
>>> Hello, i've noticed that my package colorful-mode is stuck at 1.0.0
>>> version in GNU ELPA, currently colorful from GitHub is at 1.0.3 version,
>>> i would like if can the elpa version update to the current repo and
>>> avoid this issue to all colorful future versions.
>>> Thanks.
>> Stefan, Philip, any idea what could be going on here?
>
> Yup:
>
>     From: ELPA update <[email-masked]>
>     Subject: [GNU ELPA] Sync failure: colorful-mode has diverged!
>     To: Elias G. Perez <[email-masked]>
>     Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 17:02:26 -0400 (4 weeks, 2 days, 10 minutes ago)
>     
>     The scripts failed to synchronize with the upstream version
>     because the two have diverged.  This is usually the result of an
>     overly-optimistic force-push.  Please refrain from using force-push
>     on such public branches.
>     
>     The archive will not be able to track your code until you resolve this
>     problem by (re?)merging the code that's in "emacs/elpa.git".  You can do that
>     with the following commands:
>     
>         git fetch https://git.sv.gnu.org/git/emacs/elpa.git externals/colorful-mode
>         git merge FETCH_HEAD
>     
>     Of course, feel free to undo the changes it may introduce in the file
>     contents: we only need the metadata to indicate that this commit was merged.
>     
>     You can consult the latest error output in
>     [the sync-failure file](https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/colorful-mode-sync-failure.txt).
>     
>     ## The current error output was the following:
>     
>     Upstream of colorful-mode has DIVERGED!
>     
>       Local changes:
>     40204fa9c9  eg642616@gmail..  Minor fixes
>     
>       Upstream changes:
>     9cba4d3b95  eg642616@gmail..  Update Keybindings section from README
>     2d9d1dd8c4  eg642616@gmail..  Change keybindings.
>     9f73a00eaf  eg642616@gmail..  Minor Changes
>     3ac2d942b6  eg642616@gmail..  Release 1.0.2
>     1831140c90  eg642616@gmail..  Release 1.0.2
>
>
> - Stefan

Thank you, I don't know why I didn't receive the email before, sorry for
the inconvenience, it's now updated to upstream.

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