From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: clarification for hashing git checkouts Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 02:13:26 +0200 Message-ID: <20160711001326.GA3507@thebird.nl> References: <20160710215438.15418.98984@what> <20160710231630.GA10509@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMOu7-0000uU-P6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:16:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMOu3-0001y1-FP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:16:54 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:46565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMOu3-0001xX-9n for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:16:51 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160710231630.GA10509@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 07:16:30PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 05:54:38PM -0400, Troy Sankey wrote: > > When hashing git checkouts of packages, packagers must first remove the .git > > directory. This commit adds this clarification to the "Invoking guix hash" > > page in the documentation. > > Yes! This is one that *everybody* has to ask. And only now I am understanding a problem ages ago. Would this also be the reason for git sub-modules not to work? We don't use them, but sometimes it would be a nice intermediate stage for writing a package definition. Pj.