Re: splitting up and sorting commits?

[Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>]

Am Freitag, dem 04.11.2022 um 10:20 +0100 schrieb zimoun:
> Hi Liliana,
> 
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2022 at 21:59, Liliana Marie Prikler
> <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >                                                  The pauper's
> > solution would be to keep a separate "scratch pad" file containing
> > a bunch of assorted guix packages, ordered in a way that all
> > packages are defined before they're used as inputs – you can easily
> > maintain this order by insertion sort.
> 
> I did something similar that for some Julia packages, but it can be
> tedious depending on the number of packages.  Well, it could be cool
> to have something like
> 
>     guix graph -m some-packages.scm --sort
> 
> returning the list of packages sorted (topological order).
Sorting packages in files sounds like a good application for guix style
imho.  We might even want different orders like topological or
alphabetical.  Guix graph can aid in that, but it'd return a graph
rather than the raw package code.

Cheers