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authorShamrock Lee <44064051+ShamrockLee@users.noreply.github.com>2021-05-14 01:33:03 +0800
committerThéophane Hufschmitt <theophane.hufschmitt@tweag.io>2023-06-02 10:12:35 +0200
commitb292177eec7e87dcd83fd634b4d8b43de5544c5e (patch)
tree2ad1147c371ad99d393eacead84664b31d3ead15 /doc/manual
parent27f82ef4a8fc589738ef06040dad5c0e214f97aa (diff)
Add nix-channel --list-generations
Add support to --list-generations as another way to say nix-env --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels --list-generations the way we did for nix-channel --rollback [generation id]
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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-channel.md b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-channel.md
index a210583ae..025f758e7 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-channel.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-channel.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
# Synopsis
-`nix-channel` {`--add` url [*name*] | `--remove` *name* | `--list` | `--update` [*names…*] | `--rollback` [*generation*] }
+`nix-channel` {`--add` url [*name*] | `--remove` *name* | `--list` | `--update` [*names…*] | `--list-generations` | `--rollback` [*generation*] }
# Description
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ This command has the following operations:
for `nix-env` operations (by symlinking them from the directory
`~/.nix-defexpr`).
+ - `--list-generations`\
+ Prints a list of all the current existing generations for the
+ channel profile.
+
+ Works the same way as
+ ```
+ nix-env --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels --list-generations
+ ```
+
- `--rollback` \[*generation*\]\
Reverts the previous call to `nix-channel
--update`. Optionally, you can specify a specific channel generation