Re: Help to workaround libgit2 fetch refs issue

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Freitag, dem 04.03.2022 um 09:34 +0000 schrieb Phil:
> Just to add....
> 
> Duplicating of guix-checkout in a private channel has side-effects -
> if anyone has any ideas of how to workaround this, I'd be love to
> discuss... alas, at this point I think I have 3 temporary options:
> 
> 1) Patch in my local Guix and roll my own build of Guix (see below)
> 2) Workaround outside of Guix by cloning the repo for Guix not using
> libgit2
> 3) Tell my CI/CD to continue to build all my PRs twice if the first
> build fails.
> 
> [...]
Again I wonder what the introduction of a new record type solves here.
Wouldn't it be easier to just adapt git-fetch to handle that edge case
and use normal git-references?  Origin methods have network access, so
you can pretty much do whatever.

Cheers