bug#60816: guix pull ("computing Guix derivation") is not reproducible

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On dim., 15 janv. 2023 at 15:35, Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix 
<bug-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>
>> it seems that on one machine, my .cache/guix/checkouts got polluted by
>> uncommited files. I have no idea why they're there, but cleaning them
>> should solve my issue, thanks!
>
> It's not the first time we've seen this, we could probably consider
> adding a git clean after the reset in switch-to-ref.

Yes, I remember discussing something like that in bug#47949 [1].

As discussed, maybe it’s time a “Git checkout cache daemon” [2]. :-)

1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/87zgdfd7ee.fsf@contorta>
2: <https://yhetil.org/guix/87k08x3sjv.fsf@gnu.org>

Cheers,
simon