bug#40377: closed (guix build --with-commit is broken)

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> guix build --with-commit is broken
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> Hello,
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> `--with-commit' from `guix build' doesn't always work. It seems to not
> really update the checkout contrary to what is reported since changing 
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> `git-url`, by adding a slash for example, put it back on track. It makes 
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> useless when trying out to build a newly released version. Following are
> some examples:
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> $ guix build mlt
> /gnu/store/m6y21nnyg6p0kcxbfj7k1dnbwbsbj006-mlt-6.18.0
> $ guix build mlt --with-commit=mlt=v6.18.0
> updating checkout of 'https://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git'...
> guix build: error: Git failure while fetching 
> https://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git: the requested type does not 
> match the type in the ODB
> $ guix build mlt --with-commit=mlt=v6.18.0 
> --with-git-url=mlt=https://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git/
> updating checkout of 'https://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git/'...
> retrieved commit 46a226217d8ec5bbf66a4fa3da138fd6924dd13b
> The following derivations will be built:
>    /gnu/store/ljlj1dwkdfb7sziy02hi5scskdjmxv02-mlt-6.18.0.drv
>    /gnu/store/02q25aq6mi8287hbakc9v7z0jmq9f6cz-sdl-1.2.15.drv
>    /gnu/store/5z3v3w5aslbcsq0ia429n0pkshv6f14x-frei0r-plugins-1.7.
> [...]
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> $ guix build picom --with-commit=picom=v7.5
> updating checkout of 'https://github.com/yshui/picom.git'...
> retrieved commit 3838f053afb1aa05ba1ab489f2dfaa44c00c9ef0
> /gnu/store/q1bl4q1x4wmyps5ibljvj4x3y2nl24la-picom-7.5
> $ guix build picom --with-commit=picom=vNext
> updating checkout of 'https://github.com/yshui/picom.git'...
> guix build: error: Git failure while fetching 
> https://github.com/yshui/picom.git: the requested type does not match 
> the type in the ODB
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> I've found out about this issue by reading pelzflorian's suggestion 
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> adding a `--with-version' in [0] and [1], he wrote that a year ago, 
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> support for tags was added to `--with-commit'.
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> [0]: https://issues.guix.info/issue/35744
> [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-05/msg00093.html
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> - Brice
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> Thu, 02 Apr 2020 23:17:51 +0200
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> Hi,
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> Brice Waegeneire <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > $ guix build mlt --with-commit=mlt=v6.18.0
> > updating checkout of 'https://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git'...
> > guix build: error: Git failure while fetching
> > https://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git: the requested type does not
> > match the type in the ODB
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> > $ guix build picom --with-commit=picom=vNext
> > updating checkout of 'https://github.com/yshui/picom.git'...
> > guix build: error: Git failure while fetching
> > https://github.com/yshui/picom.git: the requested type does not match
> > the type in the ODB
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> Interestingly,
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>   guix build guile-gcrypt --with-commit=guile-gcrypt=v0.2.0
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> would work just fine.
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> This is because the tags in the above examples actually point to a
> “commit” object instead of pointing to a “tag” object as in the
> guile-gcrypt case.  Weird.
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> Fixed with commit efa578ecaece67366b4b0e2266de7c2faaa4ae54.
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> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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