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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Christina O'Donnell <cdo@mutix.org>
Cc: 66540-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66540: [DOCUMENTATION] doc: Expand origin-Reference section
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:11:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pm1b4ow8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bc59aa9e4a3dd34f9ae786076a8b42f14c8fb0dc.1697288401.git.cdo@mutix.org> (Christina O'Donnell's message of "Sat, 14 Oct 2023 14:00:02 +0100")

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Hi Christina,

Christina O'Donnell <cdo@mutix.org> skribis:

> * doc/guix.texi (origin Reference): Add references for hg-reference,
> svn-reference, bzr-fetch, and bzr-reference.

This looks great to me.

For ‘svn-reference’, I had to check the code: when ‘recursive?’ is
false, “--ignore-externals” is passed to ‘svn’.  I have a vague
recollection of “externals” being akin to submodules in Git.  Anyway, I
modified the patch as shown below.

Applied now, thank you!

Ludo’.


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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 24ee1dc702..91408b8e62 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -8573,7 +8573,7 @@ origin Reference
 
 @item @code{recursive?} (default: @code{#f})
 This Boolean indicates whether to recursively fetch Subversion
-sub-modules.
+``externals''.
 
 @item @code{user-name} (default: @code{#f})
 The name of an account that has read-access to the repository, if the

      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-18 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-14 13:00 [bug#66540] [DOCUMENTATION] doc: Expand origin-Reference section Christina O'Donnell
2023-10-14 15:34 ` Christina O'Donnell
2023-10-18 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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