On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 01:33:40AM -0400, Troy Sankey wrote: > Hashing sources is becoming quite compilated! I can't wait until 'guix > download' supports git, then this could be automated.
In that case, `guix download` would need to take a Git hash as an argument. In general, I think it's a good idea to avoid `guix download` when writing packages, unless you make sure to double-check that the package's origin field works as expected. I've submitted packages with a bad URL that was masked because the tarball was already in my store from `guix download`. So, now I always download my sources "by hand" and calculate the hash from the result of that.
