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From: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: use of git-fetch
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:20:19 +0200
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To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Thompson, David
<dthompson2@worcester.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the suggestion! Probably I didn't explain well... see the
reply to Ludovic.

>
> 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