On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 07:16:30PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 05:54:38PM -0400, Troy Sankey wrote: > > When hashing git checkouts of packages, packagers must first remove the .git > > directory. This commit adds this clarification to the "Invoking guix hash" > > page in the documentation. > > Yes! This is one that *everybody* has to ask.
And only now I am understanding a problem ages ago. Would this also be the reason for git sub-modules not to work? We don't use them, but sometimes it would be a nice intermediate stage for writing a package definition. Pj.