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authorAlex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>2015-11-02 23:34:16 +0800
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-11-03 09:56:48 +0100
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doc: './pre-inst-env guix pull' won't upgrade local source tree.
* doc/contributing.texi (Running Guix Before It Is Installed): Clarify
  './pre-inst-env guix pull' won't upgrade local source tree.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pull): Mention ~/.config/guix/latest.

Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -1814,7 +1814,9 @@ On completion, @command{guix package} will use packages and package
 versions from this just-retrieved copy of Guix.  Not only that, but all
 the Guix commands and Scheme modules will also be taken from that latest
 version.  New @command{guix} sub-commands added by the update also
-become available.
+become available@footnote{Under the hood, @command{guix pull} updates
+the @file{~/.config/guix/latest} symbolic link to point to the latest
+Guix, and the @command{guix} command loads code from there.}.
 
 The @command{guix pull} command is usually invoked with no arguments,
 but it supports the following options: