Subject: Re: [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 2/3] doc: Explain how to use local guix repositories.

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:58:12 -0500

Hello,

André Batista <[email-masked]> writes:

> * doc/guix.texi (Using a Custom Guix Channel): Add note and example
> on how to exempt a local guix repository from git ownership checks.
> ---
>  doc/guix.texi | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index 44e2165a82..ae975287c7 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2020, 2021 Brice Waegeneire@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2020 R Veera Kumar@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2020, 2021, 2022 Pierre Langlois@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2020 pinoaffe@*
> -Copyright @copyright{} 2020 André Batista@*
> +Copyright @copyright{} 2020, 2023 André Batista@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2020, 2021 Alexandru-Sergiu Marton@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2020 raingloom@*
>  Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Daniel Brooks@*
> @@ -5413,6 +5413,25 @@ From there on, @command{guix pull} will fetch code from the @code{super-hacks}
>  branch of the repository at @code{example.org}.  The authentication concern is
>  addressed below (@pxref{Channel Authentication}).
>  
> +Note that you can specify a local directory on the @code{url} field above if
> +the channel that you intend to use resides on a local file system.  However,
> +in this case @command{guix} checks said directory for ownership before any
> +further processing.  This means that if the user is not the directory owner,
> +but wants to use it as their default, they will then need to set it as a safe
> +directory in their global git configuration file.  Otherwise, @command{guix}
> +will refuse to even read it.  Supposing your system-wide local directory is at
> +@code{/src/guix.git}, you would then create a git configuration file at
> +@code{~/.gitconfig} with the following contents:
> +
> +@example
> +[safe]
> +        directory = /src/guix.git
> +@end example

Perhaps you meant to use @command{git} in the above instead of
@command{guix}, since it's specific to Git (and the configure snippet is
for Git) ?

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim