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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>,
	63726@debbugs.gnu.org, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#63726: time-machine without options does not get the latest commit
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:07:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jkxyd7d.fsf@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5uphjm5.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Thu, 17 Aug 2023 09:41:06 -0400")

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:
>
>> Hey!
>>
>> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
>>
>>> This looks good to me. In practice, I doubt anyone would use -q with
>>> time-machine, because it makes more sense to specify an explicit channel
>>> file every time.
>>
>> Yeah.  The use case I have in mind is something like:
>>
>>   guix time-machine -q --commit=XYZ -- build hello
>>
>> Useful, for example, to share a way to reproduce a bug, making sure
>> there’s nothing but the ‘guix’ channel.
>
> The '-q' short option by itself is a bit opaque / hard to memorize;
> perhaps complementing it with a self explanatory
> '--ignore-channel-files' long option name would be a good idea?

Yes, I did that in v2, as Simon suggested.

(‘-q’ seems to be a relatively common convention: emacs, guile, and also
‘guix repl’.)

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-17 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-25 13:52 bug#63726: time-machine without options does not get the latest commit Simon Tournier
2023-05-25 21:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-26  9:31   ` Simon Tournier
2023-05-26 11:15   ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-05-30 13:32     ` Simon Tournier
2023-06-01 15:01       ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-08-11 15:36         ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-14 10:13           ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-08-16 13:51             ` Simon Tournier
2023-08-17  8:42             ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-17 13:41               ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-08-17 14:07                 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-08-17 14:39                   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-04 16:55   ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-08 15:39     ` Ludovic Courtès

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