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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: use of git-fetch
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:00:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=Rwfafq0b2H+LFVAQbP7bzUNOBhXtzpKgjcb=-VwKpO38Ztw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKrPhPMa1h48zwpa7XBJuve3ZHPeb+fjQRdXh=H97RadcDa5Aw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to package some emacs libraries that appear not to have a
> GNU style installation procedure. Given that MELPA is unusable, I'm
> trying to use 'git-fetch'.
>
> The package 'emacs-dash' (see attachment) works as expected. However,
> the package 'emacs-s' also downloads 'dash' and not 's'. I cloned with
> git the two repositories with the given URLs and they definitely are
> different.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Are you deleting the '.git' directory before computing the hash of the
directory?  That is a necessary step.

Consider this a call for someone to extend 'guix download' to work
with Git repositories so people don't have to do this tedious process.
Any takers?

- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-22 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-22 16:32 use of git-fetch Federico Beffa
2015-07-22 17:00 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2015-07-23  6:20   ` Federico Beffa
2015-07-22 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-23  6:29   ` Federico Beffa
2015-07-23 22:50     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-24 14:32       ` Federico Beffa
2015-07-24 20:35         ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-24 17:46 ` Alex Kost

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