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| author | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2018-10-17 20:47:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2018-10-17 20:47:11 +0200 |
| commit | d02bb02f7d833ad371c53c346b6cb77f01377cf4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9506f04a7fde2f3b264ba1d2a9012085e1f72b72 /doc/contributing.texi | |
| parent | fb3ff265cd8c6b4c6160f94240dc8932097e637b (diff) | |
| parent | acce0a474c1493ab18912bc46285248e4ccb0314 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into core-updates
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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index 68d8e7e2fb..91a87ef2dd 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -468,6 +468,14 @@ Please follow our code formatting rules, possibly running the @command{etc/indent-code.el} script to do that automatically for you (@pxref{Formatting Code}). +@item +When possible, use mirrors in the source URL (@pxref{Invoking guix download}). +Use reliable URLs, not generated ones. For instance, GitHub archives are not +necessarily identical from one generation to the next, so in this case it's +often better to clone the repository. Don't use the @command{name} field in +the URL: it is not very useful and if the name changes, the URL will probably +be wrong. + @end enumerate When posting a patch to the mailing list, use @samp{[PATCH] @dots{}} as |