From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>, 63726@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63726: time-machine without options does not get the latest commit
Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 23:03:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875y8gcedh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8ggwmat.fsf@gmail.com> (Simon Tournier's message of "Thu, 25 May 2023 15:52:26 +0200")
Hi,
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> Now, what I am missing. The manual says:
>
> As for ‘guix pull’, the absence of any options means that the latest
> commit on the master branch will be used. The command
>
> guix time-machine -- build hello
>
> will thus build the package ‘hello’ as defined in the master branch,
> which is in general a newer revision of Guix than you have installed.
> Time travel works in both directions!
>
> and I get:
>
> $ guix time-machine -- describe
> guix e499cb2
> repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> commit: e499cb2c12d7f1c6d2f004364c9cc7bdb7e38cd5
>
>
> But I do not understand from where this commit hash is coming from. And
> please note that this commit seems coming from my previous experiments
> reported in #63667 [1].
>
> Well, the last commit seems a9cde26133b,
I had to check the code, but ‘guix time-machine’ follows the same logic
as ‘guix pull’: it reads ~/.config/guix/channels.scm, and so on (that’s
the ‘channel-list’ procedure).
I must say I’m surprised, but it’s always been this way.
Should we fix the doc or should we fix the code?…
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-25 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-25 13:52 bug#63726: time-machine without options does not get the latest commit Simon Tournier
2023-05-25 21:03 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-05-26 9:31 ` Simon Tournier
2023-05-26 11:15 ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-05-30 13:32 ` Simon Tournier
2023-06-01 15:01 ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-08-11 15:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-14 10:13 ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-08-16 13:51 ` Simon Tournier
2023-08-17 8:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-17 13:41 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-08-17 14:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-17 14:39 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-04 16:55 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-08 15:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
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