Subject: bug#76660: current guix pull doesn't authenticate

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:57:23 +0100

Simon Tournier <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Last cherry on the top, from [1], the implementation relying on “git
> merge-base --is-ancestor” is 35x faster.

Uh, interesting!  I would still like to avoid shelling out to Git for
common operations, but this comparison shows there’s a lot of room to
improve the performance of the current implementation.

Ludo’.