Re: [PATCH] guix hash: -g hashes a git repository

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue 04 Apr 2017 14:21, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>> +For example:
>>> address@hidden
>>> +$ git clone http://example.org/foo.git
>>> +$ guix hash -g foo
>>> address@hidden example
>>
>> In this case -g is equivalent to -rx.
>
> My main use case is when I am in a git checkout that has build products
> or other stuff.  Then I can "guix hash -g .".  Easier than making a temp
> dir, clone, hash, then delete.

Oh right, I hadn't realized that it would exclude untracked files etc.
Definitely an improvement!

> > so we have both the commit id and the content hash.
> >
> > WDYT?
>
> Could be!  Or "git rev-parse HEAD".  I'll do that.

Awesome.

Thanks,
Ludo’.