doc: cookbook: Clarify 'git-fetch' conventions.

* doc/guix-cookbook.texi (Extended example): Clarify use of 'git-file-name'
and 'git-version'.
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@ -843,12 +843,14 @@ tags, so if the @code{version} is tagged, then it can be used directly. Sometim
the tag is prefixed with a @code{v}, in which case you'd use @code{(commit (string-append
"v" version))}.
To ensure that the source code from the Git repository is stored in a unique
directory with a readable name we use @code{(file-name (git-file-name name
To ensure that the source code from the Git repository is stored in a
directory with a descriptive name, we use @code{(file-name (git-file-name name
version))}.
Note that there is also a @code{git-version} procedure that can be used to derive the
version when packaging programs for a specific commit.
The @code{git-version} procedure that can be used to derive the
version when packaging programs for a specific commit, following the
Guix contributor guidelines (@pxref{Version Numbers,,, guix, GNU Guix
Reference Manual}).
@subsubsection Snippets