A small documentational change to the contributing section

A small documentational change to the contributing section

[Joshua Branson]

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I've added a few lines to the contributing section of the manual.  It
says that users actually have to clone the guix repo before running guix
environment guix.  I actually made the mistake a week or two ago.

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
guix environment guix
./bootstrap
#+END_SRC

When nothing happened I was really confused.  When I asked about it on
#guix, I was told that I actually have to have the repo first.
Hopefully this patch will make that a bit clearer.

P.S.  Maybe I'm overthinking this, and I just made a rookie mistake.

P.P.S.  I also hope I'm sending this to the right mailing list.

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From 3a49e32fc30480c36ea69add42cd7e2e94669a93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Branson <bransoj@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:06:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] * I updated the contributing section to include cloning the
 guix repo.

---
 doc/contributing.texi | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 0073f2451..089d81efc 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -45,9 +45,14 @@ the installation instructions (@pxref{Requirements}).
 @end itemize
 
 The easiest way to set up a development environment for Guix is, of
-course, by using Guix!  The following command starts a new shell where
-all the dependencies and appropriate environment variables are set up to
-hack on Guix:
+course, by using Guix! First, clone the guix repository.
+
+@example
+git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
+@end example
+
+The following command starts a new shell where all the dependencies and
+appropriate environment variables are set up to hack on Guix:
 
 @example
 guix environment guix
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2.13.2


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Joshua Branson
Purdue Honors College
Web Developer
Sent From Emacs and Gnus

Re: A small documentational change to the contributing section

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Joshua Branson <jbranso91@gmail.com> skribis:

> I've added a few lines to the contributing section of the manual.  It
> says that users actually have to clone the guix repo before running guix
> environment guix.  I actually made the mistake a week or two ago.
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh
> guix environment guix
> ./bootstrap
> #+END_SRC
>
> When nothing happened I was really confused.  When I asked about it on
> #guix, I was told that I actually have to have the repo first.
> Hopefully this patch will make that a bit clearer.

I’ve made this change in a slightly different way, thank you!

Ludo’.