(Oops, now I see you had already found the reason.) Simon Tournier <[email protected]> skribis:
> What do we fix? The procedure vcs-file? or fixed-output computation? There are two things are: 1. ‘vcs-file?’, used by ‘guix hash -rx’; 2. ‘git-fetch’, which does (delete-file-recursively ".git"). Clearly #2 is correct (it’s perfectly fine to have a ‘.svn’ directory in a Git repo), whereas #1 is an approximation that, in corner cases like this one, gives the wrong answer. My take is that it’s OK to keep ‘vcs-file?’ as is: the best we could do would be to add complicated heuristics in the hope corner cases like this one would be better dealt with, but it wouldn’t be bullet-proof anyway. WDYT? Ludo’.
