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guix time-machine fails; XXXX is not related to introductory commit of channel 'guix'

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 41908-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#41908: guix time-machine fails; XXXX is not related to introductory commit of channel 'guix'
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:35:59 +0200

Hi Simon,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> 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’.

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