Subject: Re: bug#41908: guix time-machine fails; XXXX is not related to introductory commit of channel 'guix'

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:35:59 +0200

Hi Simon,

zimoun <[email-masked]> skribis:

> $ /tmp/c/bin/guix time-machine --commit=36640207c9 -- help
> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> Usage: guix COMMAND ARGS...
>
> $ cat ~/.cache/guix/authentication/channels/guix
> ;; List of previously-authenticated commits.
>
> ("41a2d6a8b9294a6eb8e97aaefd569e755f5f461e"
>  "e70e097882699865f63eabc5fb29b4fe4468a97b")
>
>
> However, the commit 36640207c9 is not considered as authenticated,
> right?  So, the older authenticated commit is the first commit used by
> time-machine, right?

Note that it’s the closure of the commits listed in the cache that’s
considered authenticated.  So not every commit is listed.

Does that make sense?

Ludo’.