Hi Simon, Simon Tournier <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Maxim, > > On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 21:15, Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Attempting to navigate to a relatively distant past (Wed Jan 25 23:42:11 >> 2017 -0500) with commit 9b9e147117e6009451d7acc1f8f156e041263e32, I hit: > > [...] > >> Is this expected? info '(guix) Invoking guix time-machine' does not >> mention of any point "too far" in the past to travel to. > > It’s expected. It’s not possible to travel so far back. The zero for > time-traveling is the introduction of “inferiors” mechanism around 2019. > > Well, since the question is recurrent, I agree that: > > 1. the manual needs to be improved; > 2. the command “guix time-machine” should raise a gentle error when the > specification is unreachable. I've sent a patch doing both 1 and 2 above to guix-patches; you were CC'd on it. Let me know what you think! -- Thanks, Maxim
