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authorLudovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>2019-02-08 09:29:39 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-02-08 10:41:13 +0100
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guix build: '--with-branch' & co. fetch submodules.
* guix/scripts/build.scm (transform-package-source-branch)[replace]: Add 'recursive?' field to the new package.
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@@ -7289,7 +7289,8 @@ care!
Build @var{package} from the latest commit of @var{branch}. The @code{source}
field of @var{package} must be an origin with the @code{git-fetch} method
(@pxref{origin Reference}) or a @code{git-checkout} object; the repository URL
-is taken from that @code{source}.
+is taken from that @code{source}. Git sub-modules of the repository are
+fetched, recursively.
For instance, the following command builds @code{guile-sqlite3} from the
latest commit of its @code{master} branch, and then builds @code{guix} (which