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Konrad Hinsen
Ludovic Courtès
Ludovic Courtès
Maxim Cournoyer
Simon Tournier

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Simon Tournier wrote on 25 May 15:52 +0200

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Message-ID:87v8ggwmat.fsf@gmail.com

Hi,

Well, I do not know if it is a bug or if I misuse something. Feel free

to close if I am missing a point.

Toggle snippet (11 lines)

$ guix describe

Generation 25 mai 19 2023 13:30:14 (current)

guix 14c0380

repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

branch: master

commit: 14c03807ba4bc81d42cf869f5b827f7da54ff843

$ git -C ~/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq log --oneline -1

14c03807ba4 (HEAD -> master) gnu: ruby-3.2: Upgrade to 3.2.2 [fixes CVE-2023-{28755, 28756}].

Well, that’s just a luck that both commit hash matches.

Now, what I am missing. The manual says:

As for ‘guix pull’, the absence of any options means that the latest

commit on the master branch will be used. The command

guix time-machine -- build hello

will thus build the package ‘hello’ as defined in the master branch,

which is in general a newer revision of Guix than you have installed.

Time travel works in both directions!

and I get:

Toggle snippet (6 lines)

$ guix time-machine -- describe

guix e499cb2

repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

commit: e499cb2c12d7f1c6d2f004364c9cc7bdb7e38cd5

But I do not understand from where this commit hash is coming from. And

please note that this commit seems coming from my previous experiments

reported in #63667 [1].

Well, the last commit seems a9cde26133b,

Toggle snippet (4 lines)

$ git -C ~/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq log origin/master --oneline -1

a9cde26133b (origin/master, origin/HEAD) gnu: Add mouseloupe.

Therefore, let create a Guix revision:

Toggle snippet (6 lines)

$ guix time-machine --commit=a9cde26133b -- describe

guix a9cde26

repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

commit: a9cde26133bd98498869a3528d9dff0d3f456a96

However, still this e499cb2 one:

Toggle snippet (6 lines)

$ guix time-machine -- describe

guix e499cb2

repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

commit: e499cb2c12d7f1c6d2f004364c9cc7bdb7e38cd5

Cheers,

simon

1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/63667

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 25 May 23:03 +0200

Recipients:(name . Simon Tournier)(address . zimon.toutoune@gmail.com)

Message-ID:875y8gcedh.fsf@gnu.org

Hi,

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

Toggle quote (25 lines)> Now, what I am missing.  The manual says:
>
>        As for ‘guix pull’, the absence of any options means that the latest
>     commit on the master branch will be used.  The command
>
>          guix time-machine -- build hello
>
>        will thus build the package ‘hello’ as defined in the master branch,
>     which is in general a newer revision of Guix than you have installed.
>     Time travel works in both directions!
>
> and I get:
>
> $ guix time-machine -- describe
>   guix e499cb2
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     commit: e499cb2c12d7f1c6d2f004364c9cc7bdb7e38cd5
>
>
> But I do not understand from where this commit hash is coming from.  And
> please note that this commit seems coming from my previous experiments
> reported in #63667 [1].
>
> Well, the last commit seems a9cde26133b,

I had to check the code, but ‘guix time-machine’ follows the same logic

as ‘guix pull’: it reads ~/.config/guix/channels.scm, and so on (that’s

the ‘channel-list’ procedure).

I must say I’m surprised, but it’s always been this way.

Should we fix the doc or should we fix the code?…

Ludo’.

Konrad Hinsen wrote on 26 May 13:15 +0200

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Message-ID:m1fs7j2vjj.fsf@fastmail.net

Hi,

Toggle quote (2 lines)

> Should we fix the doc or should we fix the code?…

I vote for fixing the doc. Two reasons:

1. Having "guix time-machine" and "guix pull" behave in the same way

is desirable. Less cognitive load for users.

2. What the doc says cannot be implemented in general. "The latest

commit on the master branch" makes no sense for a setup with

multiple channels, some of which may not even have a branch called

"master".

Cheers,

Konrad.

Simon Tournier wrote on 26 May 11:31 +0200

Recipients:(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)

Message-ID:874jnzv3qi.fsf@gmail.com

Hi,

On jeu., 25 mai 2023 at 23:03, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

Toggle quote (4 lines)

> I had to check the code, but ‘guix time-machine’ follows the same logic

> as ‘guix pull’: it reads ~/.config/guix/channels.scm, and so on (that’s

> the ‘channel-list’ procedure).

Toggle snippet (70 lines)$ cat ~/.config/guix/channels.scm
(use-modules (guix ci))

(list (channel-with-substitutes-available
       %default-guix-channel
       "https://ci.guix.gnu.org"))

$ guix time-machine -C ~/.config/guix/channels.scm -- describe
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
 compute-guix-derivation  1013B                                                                                    373KiB/s 00:00 ???????????????????? 100.0%
Computing Guix derivation for 'x86_64-linux'... \
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
The following derivations will be built:
  /gnu/store/80sisjhmmb0sbvyylavm3c2rgjnhypw2-profile.drv
  /gnu/store/3213n6v442d1zv17xidg8s48hx02f433-guix-daemon.drv
  /gnu/store/77k19wqklyw4gvxqjjdg8ah4k9llb5c0-guix-command.drv
  /gnu/store/3cyv2vdk3v0asjqbspzlgbzibk1f50p2-guix-system-tests-modules.drv
  /gnu/store/9pq5bivbzg476svaqv38xjgwyhg0ml2k-guix-cli-core-modules.drv
  /gnu/store/gpjmcxvr10fnzjvkwr7yf2wpyrzyb5nm-guix-packages-base-modules.drv
  /gnu/store/gqamr3s5amc1ayqa4xbzv114zy6l8ac8-guix-system-modules.drv
  /gnu/store/xv2yv334dpxvq8bw605avhcf6dv0smyp-guix-home-modules.drv
  /gnu/store/yya1dwvx7svj588vnqznabqaa2ahv4a3-guix-cli-modules.drv

[...]

building profile with 1 package...
  guix 849286b
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 849286ba66c96534bddc04df1a47d5692cbc977e

$ guix time-machine -- describe
  guix 849286b
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 849286ba66c96534bddc04df1a47d5692cbc977e

$ mv ~/.config/guix/channels.scm /tmp/channels.scm

$ guix time-machine -C ~/.config/guix/channels.scm -- describe
guix time-machine: error: failed to load '/home/simon/.config/guix/channels.scm': No such file or directory

$ guix time-machine -- describe
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 3299b40 (36 new commits)...
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
 compute-guix-derivation  1016B                                                                                    168KiB/s 00:00 ???????????????????? 100.0%
Computing Guix derivation for 'x86_64-linux'... -
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
The following derivations will be built:
  /gnu/store/4gm2ay6gjsjq6iclmbm4jqnvja12axy2-profile.drv
  /gnu/store/7b50p1xnh4r5ahfj4da8yb8xgzqdjsyv-guix-daemon.drv
  /gnu/store/qgcnzghwqxkak53rhnggl73d6r1jkq4q-guix-command.drv
  /gnu/store/1spf6ndyz62izy3xgr9v5jnjin305s2v-guix-cli-core-modules.drv
  /gnu/store/3fib3w2cjl83r75zfllby6wp3znh362p-guix-system-tests-modules.drv
  /gnu/store/7vn6pq6j5psjwlcgvl1nbgwlspamx1wx-guix-home-modules.drv
  /gnu/store/9qr483y1law33nqdwz7bjr32sbkka2xw-guix-cli-modules.drv
  /gnu/store/iq10xaghbj6435w4c6nmyqb3kwzs119f-guix-packages-base-modules.drv
  /gnu/store/wzssfkmqywrqm86vjlyxzpf26d4h30qd-guix-system-modules.drv

[...]

building profile with 1 package...
  guix 3299b40
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 3299b40b3599371890816b52d65a6a5ada1b1131

Hum. Now, I am not seeing anymore e499cb2. Related to #63667 [1]?

1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/63667

Toggle quote (2 lines)

> Should we fix the doc or should we fix the code?…

What about this patch?

From 63b862ed9f3d3b019af3c6926bc1737f573bdfe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: <63b862ed9f3d3b019af3c6926bc1737f573bdfe6.1685093404.git.zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 11:26:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Reword guix time-machine without option.

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix time-machine): Reword the behaviour in the
absence of any option.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Toggle diff (37 lines)diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 31dc33fb97..54f8a20196 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -4958,16 +4958,20 @@ Invoking guix time-machine
 @xref{Channels} for more information.
 @end table
 
-As for @command{guix pull}, the absence of any options means that the
-latest commit on the master branch will be used.  The command
+Similarly as @command{guix pull}, the absence of any options means that
+either the user's @file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} file, or either the
+system-wide @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm} file, or either the built-in
+default channels specified in the @code{%default-channels} will be
+honored, in that order.  The command
 
 @example
 guix time-machine -- build hello
 @end example
 
-will thus build the package @code{hello} as defined in the master branch,
-which is in general a newer revision of Guix than you have installed.
-Time travel works in both directions!
+will thus build the package @code{hello} as defined by the previous
+@dfn{channels} file (@pxref{Channels}).  In general, it builds a newer
+revision of Guix than you have installed.  Time travel works in both
+directions!
 
 Note that @command{guix time-machine} can trigger builds of channels and
 their dependencies, and these are controlled by the standard build

base-commit: 99fc7e5dd3c9c92f9b6c2e51db9dc5b0481a56b2
prerequisite-patch-id: 7ff5f10954ba2e9663c6e7b15e7aee448c8b74c2
prerequisite-patch-id: cb31c4d7ad8d27df155dcf57b61116048a6b0681
prerequisite-patch-id: f256649d0fac1d618b07615c97c46e66436b9262
-- 
2.38.1

Cheers,

simon

Simon Tournier wrote on 30 May 15:32 +0200

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Message-ID:87r0qyrlm0.fsf@gmail.com

Hi Konrad,

On ven., 26 mai 2023 at 13:15, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> wrote:

Toggle quote (6 lines)

> Hi,

>> Should we fix the doc or should we fix the code?…

> I vote for fixing the doc. Two reasons:

What about this patch?

From 63b862ed9f3d3b019af3c6926bc1737f573bdfe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: <63b862ed9f3d3b019af3c6926bc1737f573bdfe6.1685093404.git.zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 11:26:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Reword guix time-machine without option.

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix time-machine): Reword the behaviour in the
absence of any option.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Toggle diff (37 lines)diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 31dc33fb97..54f8a20196 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -4958,16 +4958,20 @@ Invoking guix time-machine
 @xref{Channels} for more information.
 @end table
 
-As for @command{guix pull}, the absence of any options means that the
-latest commit on the master branch will be used.  The command
+Similarly as @command{guix pull}, the absence of any options means that
+either the user's @file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} file, or either the
+system-wide @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm} file, or either the built-in
+default channels specified in the @code{%default-channels} will be
+honored, in that order.  The command
 
 @example
 guix time-machine -- build hello
 @end example
 
-will thus build the package @code{hello} as defined in the master branch,
-which is in general a newer revision of Guix than you have installed.
-Time travel works in both directions!
+will thus build the package @code{hello} as defined by the previous
+@dfn{channels} file (@pxref{Channels}).  In general, it builds a newer
+revision of Guix than you have installed.  Time travel works in both
+directions!
 
 Note that @command{guix time-machine} can trigger builds of channels and
 their dependencies, and these are controlled by the standard build

base-commit: 99fc7e5dd3c9c92f9b6c2e51db9dc5b0481a56b2
prerequisite-patch-id: 7ff5f10954ba2e9663c6e7b15e7aee448c8b74c2
prerequisite-patch-id: cb31c4d7ad8d27df155dcf57b61116048a6b0681
prerequisite-patch-id: f256649d0fac1d618b07615c97c46e66436b9262
-- 
2.38.1

Cheers,

simon

Konrad Hinsen wrote on 1 Jun 17:01 +0200

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Message-ID:m11qivrzu3.fsf@fastmail.net

Hi Simon,

Toggle quote (2 lines)

> What about this patch?

That's a good start! But I didn't quite understand what "as defined by the previous
+@dfn{channels} file" means, so I did some more research and some more
rewriting, and came up with the attached patch. That one is clear for
me, but maybe not for others...

In the course of this research, I noticed that channel files are used in
Guix in two varieties for rather different purposes, but this doesn't
seem to be explained anywhere. "guix describe -f channels" produces
channel files with a pinned commit for each repository. That's what we
usually give to time-machine. That feature of channel files seems even
undocumented. The chapter on channels discusses the channel files we
typically use with "guix pull", and which refer to a branch and thus its
last commit, rather than to a pinned commit.

Cheers,
  Konrad.

From cbe372191a2daea7b62d8558422f08bc6ed0e047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 16:55:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Reword guix time-machine without option.

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix time-machine): Reword the behaviour in the
absence of any option.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Toggle diff (37 lines)diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 7f8d8d66e9..e4daffe4dd 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -4959,16 +4959,25 @@ Invoking guix time-machine
 @xref{Channels} for more information.
 @end table
 
-As for @command{guix pull}, the absence of any options means that the
-latest commit on the master branch will be used.  The command
+In the absence of any options, the target revision will be determined as
+for @command{guix pull}, i.e. from the user's
+@file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} file, or, if no such file exists,
+from the system-wide @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm} file, or, if that
+file does not exist either, from the built-in default channels specified
+in the @code{%default-channels} variable.  Note that these three
+fallbacks are usually channel definitions pointing to @i{branches} in
+git repositories, rather then to specific @i{commits}, as the channel
+definitions produced by @command{guix describe} do. A branch-based
+channel definition refers to the latest commit on that branch. The
+command
 
 @example
 guix time-machine -- build hello
 @end example
 
-will thus build the package @code{hello} as defined in the master branch,
-which is in general a newer revision of Guix than you have installed.
-Time travel works in both directions!
+will thus build the package @code{hello} as defined by the current state
+of the default channels. In general, it builds a @i{newer} revision of
+Guix than you have installed.  Time travel works in both directions!
 
 Note that @command{guix time-machine} can trigger builds of channels and
 their dependencies, and these are controlled by the standard build
-- 
2.40.1

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 11 Aug 17:36 +0200

Recipients:(address . 63726@debbugs.gnu.org)

Message-ID:87sf8pfv5o.fsf@gnu.org

Hi Konrad & Simon,

I had forgotten about this issue (my apologies…) and stumbled upon it

again recently, which led me to approach it a bit differently:

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65229

Let me know what you think!

Thanks,

Ludo’.

Konrad Hinsen wrote on 14 Aug 12:13 +0200

Recipients:(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludovic.courtes@inria.fr)

Message-ID:m1cyzqq6cc.fsf@fastmail.net

Hi Ludo,

Toggle quote (7 lines)

> I had forgotten about this issue (my apologies…) and stumbled upon it

> again recently, which led me to approach it a bit differently:

> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65229

> Let me know what you think!

This looks good to me. In practice, I doubt anyone would use -q with
time-machine, because it makes more sense to specify an explicit channel
file every time. But for pull, I can well imaging using it in a
reproducibility-oriented setting.

Cheers,
  Konrad

Simon Tournier wrote on 16 Aug 15:51 +0200

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Message-ID:87zg2rf63o.fsf@gmail.com

Hi,

On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 at 12:13, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> wrote:

Toggle quote (2 lines)

>> Let me know what you think!

LGTM! :-)

Toggle quote (5 lines)

> This looks good to me. In practice, I doubt anyone would use -q with

> time-machine, because it makes more sense to specify an explicit channel

> file every time. But for pull, I can well imaging using it in a

> reproducibility-oriented setting.

Well, I am also lacking imagination for “guix time-machine -q”. :-)

Moreover, the option precedence (commit, branch, channel file, etc.) is

never clear for me. Hum, maybe I could check if it’s documented… ;-)

Cheers,

simon

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 17 Aug 10:42 +0200

Recipients:(name . Konrad Hinsen)(address . konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net)

Message-ID:87leeays9s.fsf@inria.fr

Hey!

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:

Toggle quote (4 lines)

> This looks good to me. In practice, I doubt anyone would use -q with

> time-machine, because it makes more sense to specify an explicit channel

> file every time.

Yeah. The use case I have in mind is something like:

guix time-machine -q --commit=XYZ -- build hello

Useful, for example, to share a way to reproduce a bug, making sure

there’s nothing but the ‘guix’ channel.

Thanks for taking a look!

Ludo’.

Maxim Cournoyer wrote on 17 Aug 15:41 +0200

Recipients:(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludovic.courtes@inria.fr)

Message-ID:87a5uphjm5.fsf@gmail.com

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:

Toggle quote (15 lines)> Hey!
>
> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
>
>> This looks good to me. In practice, I doubt anyone would use -q with
>> time-machine, because it makes more sense to specify an explicit channel
>> file every time.
>
> Yeah.  The use case I have in mind is something like:
>
>   guix time-machine -q --commit=XYZ -- build hello
>
> Useful, for example, to share a way to reproduce a bug, making sure
> there’s nothing but the ‘guix’ channel.

The '-q' short option by itself is a bit opaque / hard to memorize;
perhaps complementing it with a self explanatory
'--ignore-channel-files' long option name would be a good idea?

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 17 Aug 16:07 +0200

Recipients:(name . Maxim Cournoyer)(address . maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com)

Message-ID:874jkxyd7d.fsf@inria.fr

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

Toggle quote (21 lines)> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:
>
>> Hey!
>>
>> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
>>
>>> This looks good to me. In practice, I doubt anyone would use -q with
>>> time-machine, because it makes more sense to specify an explicit channel
>>> file every time.
>>
>> Yeah.  The use case I have in mind is something like:
>>
>>   guix time-machine -q --commit=XYZ -- build hello
>>
>> Useful, for example, to share a way to reproduce a bug, making sure
>> there’s nothing but the ‘guix’ channel.
>
> The '-q' short option by itself is a bit opaque / hard to memorize;
> perhaps complementing it with a self explanatory
> '--ignore-channel-files' long option name would be a good idea?

Yes, I did that in v2, as Simon suggested.

(‘-q’ seems to be a relatively common convention: emacs, guile, and also

‘guix repl’.)

Ludo’.

Maxim Cournoyer wrote on 17 Aug 16:39 +0200

Recipients:(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludovic.courtes@inria.fr)

Message-ID:87sf8hg2bo.fsf@gmail.com

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:

Toggle quote (27 lines)> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Hey!
>>>
>>> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
>>>
>>>> This looks good to me. In practice, I doubt anyone would use -q with
>>>> time-machine, because it makes more sense to specify an explicit channel
>>>> file every time.
>>>
>>> Yeah.  The use case I have in mind is something like:
>>>
>>>   guix time-machine -q --commit=XYZ -- build hello
>>>
>>> Useful, for example, to share a way to reproduce a bug, making sure
>>> there’s nothing but the ‘guix’ channel.
>>
>> The '-q' short option by itself is a bit opaque / hard to memorize;
>> perhaps complementing it with a self explanatory
>> '--ignore-channel-files' long option name would be a good idea?
>
> Yes, I did that in v2, as Simon suggested.

Oh, I had missed that. Thank you!

Toggle quote (3 lines)

> (‘-q’ seems to be a relatively common convention: emacs, guile, and also

> ‘guix repl’.)

I think it's also commonly used as '--quiet', in other circles :-).

Thanks,

Maxim

Simon Tournier wrote on 4 Sep 18:55 +0200

Recipients:(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)

Message-ID:87bkehq3o7.fsf@gmail.com

Hi,

On Thu, 25 May 2023 at 23:03, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

Toggle quote (11 lines)>> Now, what I am missing.  The manual says:
>>
>>        As for ‘guix pull’, the absence of any options means that the latest
>>     commit on the master branch will be used.  The command
>>
>>          guix time-machine -- build hello
>>
>>        will thus build the package ‘hello’ as defined in the master branch,
>>     which is in general a newer revision of Guix than you have installed.
>>     Time travel works in both directions!

[...]

Toggle quote (2 lines)

> Should we fix the doc or should we fix the code?…

All seems fixed so let close it?

Cheers,

simon

Ludovic Courtès wrote on 8 Sep 17:39 +0200

Recipients:(name . Simon Tournier)(address . zimon.toutoune@gmail.com)

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Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

Toggle quote (19 lines)> On Thu, 25 May 2023 at 23:03, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>> Now, what I am missing.  The manual says:
>>>
>>>        As for ‘guix pull’, the absence of any options means that the latest
>>>     commit on the master branch will be used.  The command
>>>
>>>          guix time-machine -- build hello
>>>
>>>        will thus build the package ‘hello’ as defined in the master branch,
>>>     which is in general a newer revision of Guix than you have installed.
>>>     Time travel works in both directions!
>
> [...]
>
>> Should we fix the doc or should we fix the code?…
>
> All seems fixed so let close it?

Yes, done!

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