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From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: guix package modif testing
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	(Vincent Legoll's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:37:26 +0200")
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To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
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Hi Vincent,

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> writes:

>> .config/guix/latest is itself a link into /gnu/store/..., so cannot be
>> changed. You should work with a git checkout - so do a "git pull", not
>> a "guix pull"!
>
> The thing I still miss is that: how do I make guix use a different git
> checkout ?
>
> Is there a GUIX_CHECKOUT_PATH env var, a CLI parameter, or
> ./boostrap & ./pre-inst-env done in the checkout does all the magic ?

I think you are confusing the system you are running (Guix SD) and the
system you are developing (the Guix git repo). `.config/guix/latest' is
part of the your running system, so it is not the place you want to
experiment with changes. To develop Guix, you need to clone its git repo
by running:

  $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git

Then, you can `cd' into the cloned repo and start running the
`./boostrap' stuffs and so on...
In case you are new to git, you can read the git book
(https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2) or simply search for it on the
Internet, Stackoverflow is the place where I learn most of git.

Cheers,
Alex