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Re: use of git-fetch
From: |
Federico Beffa |
Subject: |
Re: use of git-fetch |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:20:19 +0200 |
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Thompson, David
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Federico Beffa <address@hidden> 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
Re: use of git-fetch, Alex Kost, 2015/07/24