Subject: bug#47812: Incorrect code in the Guix manual, but only on the website

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 21:13:03 -0400

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 08:12:13PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > The correct text was added about 2 years ago, in the following commit:
> >
> >   https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=dbef9015db107dd148133420b89af552ef08f8ee
> >
> > I see no evidence of it being changed since then.
> >
> > Any idea where the incorrect code on the website manual is coming from?
> 
> I see now that this new functionality was added to the 'staging' branch
> 3 days ago:
> 
>   https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=staging&id=a247f5c7537df7e0c09051ba22d5c95eb08f48b9
> 
> It seems inappropriate for our online website manual to be taken from
> 'staging'.  It has already led to an experienced Guix developer
> repeatedly suggesting (to a new user) a code snippet that cannot
> possibly work on the 'master' branch:

Hm, that's not supposed to happen. It's supposed to be based on the
'master' branch.