From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "André Batista" <nandre@riseup.net>
Cc: 61246@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 2/3] doc: Explain how to use local guix repositories.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:58:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0uoqd2j.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230217190640.1914-1-nandre@riseup.net> ("André Batista"'s message of "Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:06:40 -0300")
Hello,
André Batista <nandre@riseup.net> writes:
> * doc/guix.texi (Using a Custom Guix Channel): Add note and example
> on how to exempt a local guix repository from git ownership checks.
> ---
> doc/guix.texi | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index 44e2165a82..ae975287c7 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2020, 2021 Brice Waegeneire@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2020 R Veera Kumar@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2020, 2021, 2022 Pierre Langlois@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2020 pinoaffe@*
> -Copyright @copyright{} 2020 André Batista@*
> +Copyright @copyright{} 2020, 2023 André Batista@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2020, 2021 Alexandru-Sergiu Marton@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2020 raingloom@*
> Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Daniel Brooks@*
> @@ -5413,6 +5413,25 @@ From there on, @command{guix pull} will fetch code from the @code{super-hacks}
> branch of the repository at @code{example.org}. The authentication concern is
> addressed below (@pxref{Channel Authentication}).
>
> +Note that you can specify a local directory on the @code{url} field above if
> +the channel that you intend to use resides on a local file system. However,
> +in this case @command{guix} checks said directory for ownership before any
> +further processing. This means that if the user is not the directory owner,
> +but wants to use it as their default, they will then need to set it as a safe
> +directory in their global git configuration file. Otherwise, @command{guix}
> +will refuse to even read it. Supposing your system-wide local directory is at
> +@code{/src/guix.git}, you would then create a git configuration file at
> +@code{~/.gitconfig} with the following contents:
> +
> +@example
> +[safe]
> + directory = /src/guix.git
> +@end example
Perhaps you meant to use @command{git} in the above instead of
@command{guix}, since it's specific to Git (and the configure snippet is
for Git) ?
--
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-17 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-03 3:11 [bug#61246] [PATCH] gnu: libgit2: Update to 1.5.1 André Batista
2023-02-08 15:31 ` Simon Tournier
2023-02-17 19:05 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 0/3] " André Batista
2023-02-17 19:06 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 1/3] gnu: libgit2-1.1: Remove it André Batista
2023-02-17 19:06 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 2/3] doc: Explain how to use local guix repositories André Batista
2023-02-17 19:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2023-02-17 23:24 ` André Batista
2023-02-18 17:35 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-22 18:10 ` André Batista
2023-02-23 21:59 ` bug#61246: " Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-23 12:43 ` [bug#61246] " André Batista
2023-02-23 22:38 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-17 20:45 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-17 23:31 ` André Batista
2023-02-18 17:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-17 19:07 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 3/3] gnu: libgit2: Update to 1.5.1 André Batista
2023-02-08 15:43 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH v2] " André Batista
2023-02-09 3:25 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH] " Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-09 12:30 ` zimoun
2023-02-10 17:53 ` André Batista
2023-02-17 19:15 ` André Batista
2023-02-17 19:23 ` André Batista
2023-02-17 19:46 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-17 23:33 ` André Batista
2023-02-18 18:04 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2023-02-18 18:13 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2023-02-18 20:45 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-20 10:08 ` Simon Tournier
2023-02-20 10:05 ` Simon Tournier
2023-02-22 18:17 ` André Batista
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87r0uoqd2j.fsf@gmail.com \
--to=maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com \
--cc=61246@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=nandre@riseup.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.