Subject: Re: bug#64881: [translation] M-x texinfo-all-menus-update breaks translated cookbook

From: Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:29:40 +0200

Hi everyone,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email-masked]> writes:

> IIUC 'make as-derivation' uses the files from the guix directory, but
> 'guix pull' uses the files from a repo checkout and was not / cannot be
> broken by stray files.

`make as-derivation` uses #:select? git? to restrict to only files
that are checked out in git.  It doesn't try to get the contents of HEAD
though, the working directory's state is used instead.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret