Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Howdy! > > guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > >> + (list (origin >> + (method url-fetch) >> + (uri (string-append >> + "https://github.com/libical/libical/commit/"; >> + >> "ae394010c889e4c185160da5e81527849f9de350.patch")) > > IIRC, those generated patches are not stable, like generated tarballs, > no? What are the available options?
I haven't seen GitHub change such generated patch files yet[*], but I do agree it's "fragile", because they can be difficult to reproduce when GitHub inevitably disappears, or _do_ change the format. I wonder if it's feasible to use Guile-Git to generate the patches instead, at the expense of having to download the entire repository for the purpose of extracting one or more (substitutable) patches. [*] There was one instance where it had changed, but that was a merge commit(!), which is a pretty extreme case (whoops): https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=7670efefe4fb4aca12cb19ea5d89ff37c48e3ea6
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