Use package transformation to get commit of eglot

Use package transformation to get commit of eglot

[jgart]

Hi,

Is anyone able to successfully get the latest eglot with a package transformation?

I get the following error for commit 000b7fdce93ed29c505a7fa75baaf87094fd690a:

```
$ guix install emacs-eglot --with-commit=emacs-eglot=000b7fdce93ed29c505a7fa75baaf87094fd690a
guix install: error: the source of emacs-eglot@1.8 is not a Git reference
```

am i doing it all wrong?

Re: [EXT] Use package transformation to get commit of eglot

[Thompson, David]

Hi jgart,

On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 11:43 AM jgart <jgart@dismail.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone able to successfully get the latest eglot with a package transformation?
>
> I get the following error for commit 000b7fdce93ed29c505a7fa75baaf87094fd690a:
>
> ```
> $ guix install emacs-eglot --with-commit=emacs-eglot=000b7fdce93ed29c505a7fa75baaf87094fd690a
> guix install: error: the source of emacs-eglot@1.8 is not a Git reference
> ```
>
> am i doing it all wrong?

You were very close. The emacs-glot package gets its source code via
https, not git. So you need to additionally apply a transformation
that changes it to a git source.  The following command worked for me
to get a successful build:

    guix build emacs-eglot
--with-git-url=emacs-eglot=https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot.git
--with-commit=emacs-eglot=000b7fdce93ed29c505a7fa75baaf87094fd690a

Hope this was useful!

- Dave