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| author | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2023-10-22 23:41:22 -0400 |
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| committer | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2023-11-07 12:33:26 -0500 |
| commit | a4db19d8e07eeb26931edfde0f0e6bca4e0448d3 (patch) | |
| tree | b199fbfd0de831b5bc5e032124de35568acf9141 /doc | |
| parent | 889a6204f871fa47ba1ce12bf4a5e9600576f86a (diff) | |
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git-download: Add support for Git Large File Storage (LFS).
* guix/build/git.scm (git-fetch) [lfs?]: New argument, doc and setup code.
(git-fetch-with-fallback) [lfs?]: New argument. Pass it to git-fetch.
* guix/git-download.scm (git-lfs-package): New procedure.
(git-fetch/in-band*): New procedure, made of the logic of git-fetch/in-band,
with new git-lfs specifics, with the following changes:
New #:git-lfs argument.
<inputs>: Remove labels. Conditionally add git-lfs.
<build>: Read "git lfs?" environment
variable and pass its value to the #:lfs? argument of git-fetch-with-fallback.
Use INPUTS directly; update comment.
<gexp->derivation>: Add "git lfs?" to #:env-vars.
(git-fetch/in-band): Express in terms of git-fetch/in-band*.
(git-fetch/lfs): New procedure.
* doc/guix.texi (origin Reference): Document it.
Change-Id: I5b233b8642a7bdb8737b9d9b740e7254a89ccb25
Reviewed-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 9f06f1c325..8c78ff8c0c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -8375,6 +8375,13 @@ hash @var{hash} of type @var{hash-algo} (a symbol). Use @var{name} as the file name, or a generic name if @code{#f}. @end deffn +@deffn {Procedure} git-fetch/lfs ref hash-algo hash +This is a variant of the @code{git-fetch} procedure that supports the +Git @acronym{LFS, Large File Storage} extension. This may be useful to +pull some binary test data to run the test suite of a package, for +example. +@end deffn + @deftp {Data Type} git-reference This data type represents a Git reference for @code{git-fetch} to retrieve. |