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| author | Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> | 2018-05-30 12:34:41 -0400 |
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| committer | Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> | 2018-05-30 12:34:41 -0400 |
| commit | bbbfc180d9024991b9879e6d3c3c91d078bb499a (patch) | |
| tree | 5203504dffda84e52199ec4f614f8915bbcbf665 /doc/manual | |
| parent | 5d4a9d56777d8139705a920c79c77142b40a6d07 (diff) | |
Explicitly describe the effects of filterSource excluding a directory.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml index 54f697d85..c7a7b49be 100644 --- a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml +++ b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml @@ -459,7 +459,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { <literal>"unknown"</literal> (for other kinds of files such as device nodes or fifos — but note that those cannot be copied to the Nix store, so if the predicate returns - <literal>true</literal> for them, the copy will fail).</para> + <literal>true</literal> for them, the copy will fail). If you + exclude a directory, the entire corresponding subtree of + <replaceable>e2</replaceable> will be excluded.</para> </listitem> |