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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40377: guix build --with-commit is broken
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 23:17:51 +0200
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To: Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re>
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Hi,

Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re> skribis:

> $ guix build mlt --with-commit=3Dmlt=3Dv6.18.0
> updating checkout of 'https://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git'...
> guix build: error: Git failure while fetching
> https://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git: the requested type does not
> match the type in the ODB

[...]

> $ guix build picom --with-commit=3Dpicom=3DvNext
> updating checkout of 'https://github.com/yshui/picom.git'...
> guix build: error: Git failure while fetching
> https://github.com/yshui/picom.git: the requested type does not match
> the type in the ODB

Interestingly,

  guix build guile-gcrypt --with-commit=3Dguile-gcrypt=3Dv0.2.0

would work just fine.

This is because the tags in the above examples actually point to a
=E2=80=9Ccommit=E2=80=9D object instead of pointing to a =E2=80=9Ctag=E2=80=
=9D object as in the
guile-gcrypt case.  Weird.

Fixed with commit efa578ecaece67366b4b0e2266de7c2faaa4ae54.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.