Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > Christopher Baines <[email protected]> skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: > > [...] > >>> Ah yes, that looks like a problem: “doc”, which is taken straight from >>> the checkout, normally does not contain *.LANG.texi; those files are not >>> checked in. >>> >>> Could it be that ~/.cache/guix/checkouts contains a non-pristine >>> checkout of Guix with that extra file? >> >> That looks like the issue. > > Ah, good to know. > > [...] > >> That outputs 259 other files as well. Maybe it's worth running git clean >> on the cache directory, or only pulling files in from the cache >> directory if they're tracked by git. > > (guix git) does a hard reset in ‘switch-to-ref’, which is normally > enough as long as the user doesn’t manually fiddle with the checkout. > > Should we add something there?
I don't know enough about these Git operations, but I guess that's probably fine if things happen normally. I do wonder if it's possible to get in to states where there are some untracked files left around if operations are cancelled or stop part way though.
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