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authorJulien Tanguy <julien.tanguy@jhome.fr>2019-09-11 14:18:47 +0200
committerJulien Tanguy <julien.tanguy@jhome.fr>2019-09-11 14:18:47 +0200
commitae244af242ca3621e5a3b9196f27d9fcbf297266 (patch)
tree818b69401bf04a84560c58f25c0e7d37276113ad
parent92ede15dd902f7c1d2771c194b8bb73fe406840f (diff)
docs: Use the explicit ref for fetchGit with a tag
With the merge of #2582, the syntax "tags/1.9" for refs does not work anymore. However, the new syntax "refs/tags/1.9" seems to support annotated tags, such as "refs/tags/2.0". Closes #2385.
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
index 39407c9ac..191fa7810 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
@@ -499,11 +499,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { … }
<title>Fetching a tag</title>
<programlisting>builtins.fetchGit {
url = "https://github.com/nixos/nix.git";
- ref = "tags/1.9";
+ ref = "refs/tags/1.9";
}</programlisting>
- <note><para>Due to a bug (<link
- xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2385">#2385</link>),
- only non-annotated tags can be fetched.</para></note>
</example>
<example>