From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Generated patches change over time
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 21:12:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y386zboj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lbvoeh2.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 02 Dec 2018 15:33:34 -0500")
Hello,
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>> The way I see it, `guix download' should just do the right thing -- the
>> metadata stripping should be baked in and not user
>> controllable. Alternatively, it could be controllable, but enabled by
>> default. This would keep the workflow the same as it is now.
>
> I *certainly* don't want "guix download" to try to automatically detect
> that the downloaded file contains a patch, after some possibly
> nontrivial amount of plain text which is typically present in patch
> files, and to canonicalize the patch in that case.
>
> However, we could add an optional flag to "guix download", or perhaps
> add another 'guix' subcommand, to request the use of a specific 'origin'
> type. In addition to supporting canonicalized patches, this could also
> improve the workflow for other origin types such as 'git-fetch' and
> 'hg-fetch'.
>
> In general, the specified 'origin' type would determine the number and
> meaning of the arguments, e.g. for 'git-fetch' an additional commit
> argument would be needed.
>
> Thoughts?
I like your idea, and it indeed sounds more straightforward from an
implementation perspective.
Maxim
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[not found] ` <20181124183052.9A76B209A2@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-11-25 16:24 ` 01/02: gnu: rhythmbox: Update hash of patch Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-25 21:31 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-11-28 11:04 ` Generated patches change over time Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-28 17:59 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-02 0:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-29 14:48 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2018-12-01 21:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-01 22:29 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-02 10:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-02 19:36 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2018-12-02 20:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-31 2:12 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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