Thompson, David writes: > Hi Christopher and Jan, > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Christopher Allan Webber > <cweb...@dustycloud.org> wrote: >> Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: >> >>> Christopher Allan Webber writes: >>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> The file is updated, and even nicer now, since I'm using a hack from >>>> guile-sdl2 which allows you to set the source to the whole checkout. >>> >>> Ohh! That needs to go in the Guix manual... could git-file? be added >>> to guix/utils? >> >> Maybe! I think David knows more about the provenance? > > I took this code from Ludovic. See make-git-predicate in > gnu/packages/package-management.scm in the Guix source tree. > >> I agree it would be nice to have in Guix itself. > > Agreed. A generalized and publicly available procedure would be great. > > - Dave
Hello! See the above conversation... 8sync now uses `git-file?' in its guix.scm, a predicate check which allows for checking out the whole local directory as a "source" for testing a package. I borrowed it from Dave who originally adapted it from some code in Guix itself. See: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/8sync.git/tree/guix.scm#n62 This is pretty handy; probably other projects would like to make use of it. What do we think of making it a generally available utility? - Chris
