How To Keep Emacs Healthy And Happy on macOS

• Update macOS daily to get security fixes
• Update Brew software packages
  • brew update && brew upgrade
  • Emacs 25.2 for example updated on the day of its release

• Snapshot Emacs’ packages

  cd ~/.emacs.d
  git add .
  git commit -m "Automated versioning"
  

• Update Emacs packages
  • Steps
    • list-packages
    • U
    • x
    • package-autoremove
  • If you are worried about breaking your packages then initialize a Git repo in your elpa or even your entire .emacs.d directory before the update and restore the last version
• Update Org-Mode and Magit
  • Steps
    • cd ~/src/org-mode/ && git ls-remote && make update
    • cd ~/src/magit/ && git ls-remote && git pull && make clean && make
  • Why
    • Get best new features immediately
    • If you don’t like the update then undo the pull: git reset HEAD@{1}

Addendum: <2017-06-07 Wed 16:02>

Only clean the working copy if Git can reach remote repo!