* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pull): Give some examples of how to deploy
arbitrary Guix versions with the --url option.
---
doc/guix.texi | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index bf9dbaa72..6a4bd642b 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2014, 2015, 2016 Alex Kost@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@*
-Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Leo Famulari@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017 Leo Famulari@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Ricardo Wurmus@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Chris Marusich@*
@@ -2336,6 +2336,20 @@ Download the source tarball of Guix from @var{url}.
By default, the tarball is taken from its canonical address at
@code{gnu.org}, for the stable branch of Guix.
+With some Git servers, this can be used to deploy any version of Guix.
+For example, to download and deploy the version 0.12.0 of Guix from the
+canonical Git repo:
+
+@example
+guix pull
--url=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/v0.12.0.tar.gz
+@end example
+
+It can also be used to deploy arbitrary Git revisions:
+
+@example
+guix pull
--url=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/74d862e8a.tar.gz
+@end example
+
@item --bootstrap
Use the bootstrap Guile to build the latest Guix. This option is only
useful to Guix developers.
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