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[PATCH 0/2] Support 'git describe' style commit IDs in transformations

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From: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>
To: 50377 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#50377] [PATCH v2 1/2] git: 'resolve-reference' handles
 'git describe'-style commit IDs.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:52:08 +0200

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Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org> skriver:

> * guix/git.scm (resolve-reference): Use REVPARSE-SINGLE for looking up
> commits.  Rewrite tag-or-commit case to recognize 'git describe' style
> identifiers and resolve them as commits.

I realize we can do this without resorting to 'revparse-single', which
does essentially the same as this procedure.  We just have to extract
the short commit from the describe string.  New patch attached:

[0001-git-resolve-reference-handles-git-describe-style-com.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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