Hello guix, I am in the process of writing some code, and I like the fact that the source of a guix package can have a git reference. However, when I use it, the .git directory is not present when building the source.
Did I missed something? This is very inconvenient, because I use "git describe" to compute the version number, and there is nothing I can do without the .git. I could update the version number on each commit, but then it will not work when merging branches, and the tag system is generally better, so I have no version information in the sources checked in the git repository. Please note that this could benefit all the packages that use the git- veersion-gen script. For the meson build system, the .git directory is also mandatory, I think. My solution for now is to write the version to a file named ".tarball- version" at the root of the package, create an artificial commit, and use that as the source. However, it is not reproducible because re- creating the same commit (with the same date and authorship information) will lead to another commit ID. Can I do something better? Is it possible to include the ".git" directory with a git source? divoplade
