Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:

> I tried reusing your package snippet from
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-09/msg00074.html by
> setting
>
>                (url "git://localhost/~ambrevar/projects/emacs")

I'm sorry for probably an obvious question.  Does ‘git clone
git://localhost/~ambrevar/projects/emacs’ work?

[…]

> I'm not very familiar with the "git" protocol: does it require some
> special configuration?

It does, see https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Version-Control-Services.html

Be sure ‘user-path’ is setted correctly.

> I also tried specifying a local path:
>
>                (url "/home/ambrevar/projects/emacs")
> 
> […]
> 
> I think this is a bug: if git clone accepts local paths, then so should
> git-reference.

It would be a useful feature, but I don't know all pitfalls.

We can do ‘guix pull --url=$PWD’ in “Guix checkout” though.


Oleg.