Konrad Hinsen skribis: > Except that I must have missed something: > > $ guix time-machine --url=$HOME/src/guix --branch=wip-nested-containers -- shell -C -W -N make bash -- make all > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at '/home/hinsen/src/guix'... > guix time-machine: error: Git error: cannot locate remote-tracking > branch 'origin/keyring' Maybe you need to run ‘git fetch’ and/or make sure the remote is called “origin”? > I worked around this using --disable-authentication, but I don't > understand what's going wrong. My repository is a clone of the official > repository at Savannah, and it does have a branch "origin/keyring". Weird. (You would have needed ‘--disable-authentication’ anyway, now that I think about it, because the commit signed by you would have been considered “inauthentic”.) > The patch works as expected for me. I could simplify the instructions > for running my example Makefile from > > guix shell -C -N make bash guix nss-certs \ > --expose=/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket \ > --expose=/gnu/store \ > -- make all > > to: > > guix shell -C -W -N make bash \ > -- make all > > and. more importantly, require much less explanation of ugly > technicalities. Yay! > The full Makefile is attached for illustrating the context in which I > (intend to) use this new feature. I use time-machine inside the recipes > of my Makefile, in order to make them fully reproducible. This used to > be a very expensive operation without the patch, because the > time-machine in the container did not have access to the global cache on > the host system. It is a lot faster now. > > So... where is the "like" button? ;-) Click here ➡ 👍 ⬅ Thanks a lot for testing! If there are no further comments, I’ll push it within a couple of days. Ludo’.