Re: (almost) deterministic patchsets

[Richard Sent]

> One possible use would be to make `guix download` options, such as
> `--patchset=70XXX -v3`
>
> This could help with patch apply and review. We will have to also take
> care of not making guix dependent on b4, but maybe that's possible with
> lazy resolving the b4 package?
>
> WDYT?
>

>From my perspective having a pretty, command-line way to download patch
sets would be a nice QoL feature to have and might make the patch review
process simpler.

On a related note I recently discovered that issues.guix.gnu.org does
have a patch-set endpoint that optionally takes a revision e.g.
issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/70XXX/patch-set/3.

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Take it easy,
Richard Sent
Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.