@@ 1,5 1,6 @@
# GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
# Copyright © 2023 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
+# Copyright © 2023 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
#
# This file is part of GNU Guix.
#
@@ 20,9 21,26 @@
# Test the 'guix time-machine' command-line utility.
#
-guix time-machine --version
+if [ -d "$abs_top_srcdir/.git" ] \
+ || guile -c '(getaddrinfo "www.gnu.org" "80" AI_NUMERICSERV)' 2> /dev/null
+then
+ guix time-machine --version
+else
+ echo "This test requires networking or a local Git checkout; skipping." >&2
+ exit 77
+fi
-# Visiting a commit older than v1.0.0 fails.
-! guix time-machine --commit=v0.15.0
+if [ -d "$abs_top_srcdir/.git" ]
+then
+ # Note: No "file://" prefix because that makes cloning much more expensive
+ # for some reason.
+ EXTRA_OPTIONS="--url=$abs_top_srcdir"
+else
+ EXTRA_OPTIONS=""
+fi
-exit 0
+# Visiting a commit older than v1.0.0 must fail (this test is expensive
+# because it clones the whole repository).
+guix time-machine -q --commit=v0.15.0 $EXTRA_OPTIONS -- describe && false
+
+true