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| author | Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | 2018-10-21 23:18:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | 2018-10-21 23:19:35 +0200 |
| commit | cf7658f7cb5de0e17f4801faa84c378a4b40033e (patch) | |
| tree | 646fa120d67bb41868a543461700e62aa170b2c0 /doc/contributing.texi | |
| parent | 09c5a5680a06011f985a84aa26fb890b3be453bd (diff) | |
| parent | ffddb42d6c510456997ee6de1c1b8026c9ce6d14 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'core-updates' into core-updates-next
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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 |