Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:40:41AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> >> Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: >> >> > That sounds good to me. There was some discussion of how much of the >> > hash to keep here: >> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-12/msg00136.html >> > >> > I like this method that I've seen in some of the packages, because it >> > keeps the version tidy while preserving the full hash: >> > >> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> > (define-public hello >> > (let ((commit "e8e46123cfe62170a2f7f79db6b471b66ae36947")) >> > (package >> > (name "hello") >> > (version (string-append "2.10-1" (string-take commit 8))) >> > (source (origin >> > (method git-fetch) >> > (uri (git-reference >> > (url "git://git.sv.gnu.org/hello.git") >> > (commit commit))) >> > (sha256 >> > [...] >> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> I like this approach (though I’ve been taking 9 characters of the commit >> ;)). > > I like 10 but I wanted to match your example upthread ;)
I prefer 7! This is how Git usually truncates SHA1s, so it can’t be wrong. Ludo’.
