Hi Guix,
in the past we discussed printing more readable commits with “guix
describe”. This patch would do that:
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diff --git a/guix/scripts/describe.scm b/guix/scripts/describe.scm
index f13f221da9..c5fcef1bcd 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/describe.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/describe.scm
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#:use-module (guix describe)
#:use-module (guix profiles)
#:use-module (git)
+ #:use-module (git describe)
#:use-module (json)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-37)
@@ -127,7 +128,8 @@ string is ~a.~%")
(exit 1))))
(repository (repository-open directory))
(head (repository-head repository))
- (commit (oid->string (reference-target head))))
+ (commit-ref (commit-lookup repository (reference-target head)))
+ (commit (describe-format (describe-commit commit-ref))))
(match fmt
('human
(format #t (G_ "Git checkout:~%"))
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It does, however, depend on the most recent released version of
guile-git, which introduced (git describe). It would fail with any
previous version.
It is also not clear if the output would actually be better for use in
channel files.
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Ricardo
