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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma@singpolyma.net>,
	 guix-devel@gnu.org, 0@psycoti.ca
Subject: Re: git-fetch without a hash
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:16:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ricrm90.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86pmbt8feb.fsf@gmail.com> (Simon Tournier's message of "Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:06:04 +0100")

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> Maybe my question is naive but what is the use case for this (sha256 #f)
> in the first place?  Because maybe it could just error using some
> ’sanitize’ for the hash record field.

There’s a couple of uses: Chromium, IceCat, and Linux-libre (IIRC).

I don’t like that, but I’m not sure what it would take to change these
to <computed-file> or something like that.

Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-09 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-21  3:04 git-fetch without a hash Stephen Paul Weber
2022-12-21 22:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-03 19:31   ` Stephen Paul Weber
2023-01-03 21:34     ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-05 10:06       ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-09 11:16         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-01-11 15:34           ` Simon Tournier
2023-02-05 17:44             ` bokr
2023-02-06 17:01               ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-09 17:13       ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-01-09 17:35         ` Stephen Paul Weber
2023-01-17 16:01           ` Ludovic Courtès

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