Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Currently, the first ‘guix pull’ (when ~/.cache/guix is empty)
> authenticates starting from the introductory commit.  For the ‘guix’
> channel, that’s 11K commits today, which takes about a minute to process
> on modern hardware.
>
> Authentication should instead consider the current commits, as returned
> by ‘guix describe’, authenticated, and start from there.

The attached patch does that.

Ludo’.