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guix pull to old commit fails due to unsupported manifest format

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Message #42 received at 57306-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>
Cc: 57306-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#57306: guix pull to old commit fails due to unsupported
 manifest format
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:06:20 +0200

Hi,

Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net> skribis:

>> I do not think it is related to guix-daemon and I think it is expected;
>> indeed it could be considered as a bug.  The command-line,
>>
>>     guix pull --commit=xyz -p /tmp/test
>>
>> writes /tmp/test/manifest using the current Guix (say manifest 4) and
>> not using Guix at commit xyz (say manifest 3).  Contrary to “guix
>> time-machine --commit=xyz”.
>
> Ah, that makes sense! Any ideas as to how this issue might be fixed?

I fixed it in 67a6828b2bb821274757f686f7c685b664339a96 using the same
trick as earlier.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

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