Re: Generate diff with git-diff and use in patches field of packages

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 04:11, Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout@zaclys.net> wrote:

> While patching packages for security issues, I often am needing to get
> some patches from git repos because upstream does not make releases.

If the package already uses git-fetch, why not directly uses the commit
fixing the issue as source?

If the package is not already using git-fetch but instead url-fetch,
maybe the replacement to git-fetch makes sense.  Even if there is no
consensus about git-fetch vs url-fetch. :-) Thread here:

<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-05/msg00224.html>


Cheers,
simon