Subject: Re: bug#32618: Channels: guix pull error when specifying branch

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 23:55:12 +0200

Hi Eric,

Eric Brown <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I am trying the new Channels, working with a
> ~/.config/guix/channels.scm:
>
> `guix pull' completes when a commit is specified:
> (list (channel
>        (name 'guix)
>        (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")
>        (commit "391097782311c82c04b171db7373a0bbfc1d8653")))
>
> but not when the branch name is specified:
> (list (channel
>        (name 'guix)
>        (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")
>        (branch "master")))
>
> guix pull: error: Git error: cannot locate remote-tracking branch 'master'

Until now you had to write "origin/master" instead of "master".

This is now fixed in commit 37a6cdbf1b3503d3e60840a176318284b1f7ca25.

Thanks!

Ludo’.