From: Philippe SWARTVAGHER <philippe.swartvagher@inria.fr>
To: 50026@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50026: Specify a pull-request in --with-branch package transformations
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 11:38:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29e470a4-89a3-2ac1-1fbd-f4a747443fb9@inria.fr> (raw)
Hello,
A nice feature would be to be able to use a pull-request as branch to
specify in the `--with-branch` transformation option.
A use-case is to use a pull-request coming from a private fork, thus we
can't use the combination `--with-git-url= with-branch=`.
As an example, if I follow
https://gitlab.inria.fr/help/user/project/merge_requests/reviews/index.md#checkout-merge-requests-locally-through-the-head-ref,
I should be able to do something like:
```bash
guix build chameleon --with-branch=chameleon=merge-requests/262/head
```
(with 262 being the pull-request I'm interested in) However, this fails:
```
guix build: erreur : impossible de récupérer la branche «
merge-requests/262/head » depuis
https://gitlab.inria.fr/solverstack/chameleon : cannot locate
remote-tracking branch 'origin/merge-requests/262/head'
```
While commands stated in the documentation work well:
```bash
git clone https://gitlab.inria.fr/solverstack/chameleon && cd chameleon
git fetch origin merge-requests/262/head:mr-262
git checkout mr-262
```
I guess the fetch step is lacking in the way Guix handles the
`--with-branch` transformation.
FYI, Ansible is able to do things like that (see
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/git_module.html),
by combining options `refspec` and `version`.
I'm aware a workaround is to download the patch corresponding to the
pull-request and using `--with-patch`, however handling it directly with
`--with-branch` would be more handy !
Thanks,
--
Philippe SWARTVAGHER
PhD Student
TADaaM team, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest
next reply other threads:[~2021-08-12 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-12 9:38 Philippe SWARTVAGHER [this message]
2021-08-12 15:30 ` bug#50026: Specify a pull-request in --with-branch package transformations raingloom
2021-08-12 20:06 ` Philippe SWARTVAGHER
2021-09-14 7:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-14 8:12 ` zimoun
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