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01/01: doc: Add recommendations for good origin URLs.
From: |
Pierre Neidhardt |
Subject: |
01/01: doc: Add recommendations for good origin URLs. |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:07:33 -0400 (EDT) |
ambrevar pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 4feb589bf48cbbd2d524002456fa822acf856bc3
Author: Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 10 18:06:08 2018 +0200
doc: Add recommendations for good origin URLs.
* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): URL recommendations.
---
doc/contributing.texi | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 68d8e7e..91a87ef 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -468,6 +468,14 @@ Please follow our code formatting rules, possibly running
the
@command{etc/indent-code.el} script to do that automatically for you
(@pxref{Formatting Code}).
address@hidden
+When possible, use mirrors in the source URL (@pxref{Invoking guix download}).
+Use reliable URLs, not generated ones. For instance, GitHub archives are not
+necessarily identical from one generation to the next, so in this case it's
+often better to clone the repository. Don't use the @command{name} field in
+the URL: it is not very useful and if the name changes, the URL will probably
+be wrong.
+
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