Re: Add a generalized git-file? to Guix?

[Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:

> Thompson, David writes:
>
>> Hi Christopher and Jan,
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Christopher Allan Webber
>> <cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
>>> Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes:
>>>
>>>> Christopher Allan Webber writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> The file is updated, and even nicer now, since I'm using a hack from
>>>>> guile-sdl2 which allows you to set the source to the whole checkout.
>>>>
>>>> Ohh!  That needs to go in the Guix manual... could git-file? be added
>>>> to guix/utils?
>>>
>>> Maybe!  I think David knows more about the provenance?
>>
>> I took this code from Ludovic.  See make-git-predicate in
>> gnu/packages/package-management.scm in the Guix source tree.
>>
>>> I agree it would be nice to have in Guix itself.
>>
>> Agreed.  A generalized and publicly available procedure would be great.
>>
>> - Dave
>
> Hello!  See the above conversation... 8sync now uses `git-file?' in its
> guix.scm, a predicate check which allows for checking out the whole
> local directory as a "source" for testing a package.  I borrowed it from
> Dave who originally adapted it from some code in Guix itself.  See:
>
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/8sync.git/tree/guix.scm#n62
>
> This is pretty handy; probably other projects would like to make use of
> it.  What do we think of making it a generally available utility?

I would make use of it and I am in favour of adding it to Guix.

Thanks.

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Mathieu Lirzin
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