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bug#63726: time-machine without options does not get the latest commit
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#63726: time-machine without options does not get the latest commit |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:07:34 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:
>
>> Hey!
>>
>> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
>>
>>> This looks good to me. In practice, I doubt anyone would use -q with
>>> time-machine, because it makes more sense to specify an explicit channel
>>> file every time.
>>
>> Yeah. The use case I have in mind is something like:
>>
>> guix time-machine -q --commit=XYZ -- build hello
>>
>> Useful, for example, to share a way to reproduce a bug, making sure
>> there’s nothing but the ‘guix’ channel.
>
> The '-q' short option by itself is a bit opaque / hard to memorize;
> perhaps complementing it with a self explanatory
> '--ignore-channel-files' long option name would be a good idea?
Yes, I did that in v2, as Simon suggested.
(‘-q’ seems to be a relatively common convention: emacs, guile, and also
‘guix repl’.)
Ludo’.