Re: use of git-fetch

[Thompson, David]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Federico Beffa <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to package some emacs libraries that appear not to have a
> GNU style installation procedure. Given that MELPA is unusable, I'm
> trying to use 'git-fetch'.
>
> The package 'emacs-dash' (see attachment) works as expected. However,
> the package 'emacs-s' also downloads 'dash' and not 's'. I cloned with
> git the two repositories with the given URLs and they definitely are
> different.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Are you deleting the '.git' directory before computing the hash of the
directory?  That is a necessary step.

Consider this a call for someone to extend 'guix download' to work
with Git repositories so people don't have to do this tedious process.
Any takers?

- Dave