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author | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2020-03-30 16:04:18 +0200 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2020-04-07 09:03:14 +0200 |
commit | 462421d34588c227eb736b07f7b40a38aa0972a6 (patch) | |
tree | 73778f8392f303eb001b95f2c7f0a99b24f06478 /maintainers | |
parent | ebb20a5356af023498506324bd0f88a99175e295 (diff) |
Backport libfetchers from the flakes branch
This provides a pluggable mechanism for defining new fetchers. It adds
a builtin function 'fetchTree' that generalizes existing fetchers like
'fetchGit', 'fetchMercurial' and 'fetchTarball'. 'fetchTree' takes a
set of attributes, e.g.
fetchTree {
type = "git";
url = "https://example.org/repo.git";
ref = "some-branch";
rev = "abcdef...";
}
The existing fetchers are just wrappers around this. Note that the
input attributes to fetchTree are the same as flake input
specifications and flake lock file entries.
All fetchers share a common cache stored in
~/.cache/nix/fetcher-cache-v1.sqlite. This replaces the ad hoc caching
mechanisms in fetchGit and download.cc (e.g. ~/.cache/nix/{tarballs,git-revs*}).
This also adds support for Git worktrees (c169ea59049f861aaba429f48b828d0820b74d1d).
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