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| author | Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl> | 2024-01-27 11:19:05 +0100 |
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| committer | eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems> | 2024-05-02 19:34:03 +0200 |
| commit | fae6ae2122b882b77d441b31a0021a6f15f6b03b (patch) | |
| tree | f75f10eb673e74d644b273957e29a5f57079114f /doc/manual | |
| parent | 3a058dc4b3f7a8d3f131f2031bf348788ce9206c (diff) | |
parseStorePath: Support leading period
(cherry picked from commit b13e6a76b4f289c6db69ffaa7bd35b7e44f2a391)
Change-Id: Ie14be437d87d17248f80e1f009aa2a4311ddede6
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/rl-next/leading-period.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/leading-period.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/leading-period.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..df97e03b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/leading-period.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- +synopsis: Store paths are allowed to start with `.` +issues: 912 +prs: [9867, 9091, 9095, 9120, 9121, 9122, 9130, 9219, 9224] +--- + +Leading periods were allowed by accident in Nix 2.4. The Nix team has considered this to be a bug, but this behavior has since been relied on by users, leading to unnecessary difficulties. +From now on, leading periods are officially, definitively supported. + +Nix versions that denied leading periods are documented [in the issue](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/912#issuecomment-1919583286). |