GNU bug report logs - #36371
'--with-commit' does not support tags

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Message #15 received at 36371-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 36371-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36371: guix build --with-git-reference=…
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:38:25 +0200

Hello!

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> $ guix build guile-gcrypt --with-commit=guile-gcrypt=v1.0.0
> updating checkout of 'https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-gcrypt.git'...
> guix build: error: cannot fetch commit v1.0.0 from https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-gcrypt.git: unable to parse OID - contains invalid characters
>
> Internally, that uses the ‘git-checkout’ record type defined in (guix
> git).
>
> What I would propose is to change ‘git-checkout-compiler’ so that it can
> determine with a simple heuristic like that of (@@ (guix swh) commit-id?)
> whether the string denotes a commit ID or a tag.

Done in 177fecb57c0c9e15249bf6a49244c9dc6eb8439c.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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