Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Thank you for the hint.  That said, I really don't want to set up a git
server for so little.

Is there a good reason not to allow local paths in git URLs?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

Every solution breeds new problems.