GNU bug report logs - #63726
time-machine without options does not get the latest commit

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 18:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 63726 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net>
Cc: 63726 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#63726: time-machine without options does not get the latest
 commit
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:42:07 +0200

Hey!

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net> skribis:

> This looks good to me. In practice, I doubt anyone would use -q with
> time-machine, because it makes more sense to specify an explicit channel
> file every time.

Yeah.  The use case I have in mind is something like:

  guix time-machine -q --commit=XYZ -- build hello

Useful, for example, to share a way to reproduce a bug, making sure
there’s nothing but the ‘guix’ channel.

Thanks for taking a look!

Ludo’.
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