Add fetchgit builtin

The function builtins.fetchgit fetches Git repositories at evaluation
time, similar to builtins.fetchTarball. (Perhaps the name should be
changed, being confusing with respect to Nixpkgs's fetchgit function,
with works at build time.)

Example:

  (import (builtins.fetchgit git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs) {}).hello

or

  (import (builtins.fetchgit {
    url = git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels;
    rev = "nixos-16.03";
  }) {}).hello

Note that the result does not contain a .git directory.

2 files changed, 78 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchgit.cc b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchgit.cc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e2a545ee0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchgit.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#include "primops.hh"
+#include "eval-inline.hh"
+#include "download.hh"
+#include "store-api.hh"
+
+namespace nix {
+
+static void prim_fetchgit(EvalState & state, const Pos & pos, Value * * args, Value & v)
+{
+    // FIXME: cut&paste from fetch().
+    if (state.restricted) throw Error("‘fetchgit’ is not allowed in restricted mode");
+
+    std::string url;
+    std::string rev = "master";
+
+    state.forceValue(*args[0]);
+
+    if (args[0]->type == tAttrs) {
+
+        state.forceAttrs(*args[0], pos);
+
+        for (auto & attr : *args[0]->attrs) {
+            string name(attr.name);
+            if (name == "url")
+                url = state.forceStringNoCtx(*attr.value, *attr.pos);
+            else if (name == "rev")
+                rev = state.forceStringNoCtx(*attr.value, *attr.pos);
+            else
+                throw EvalError(format("unsupported argument ‘%1%’ to ‘fetchgit’, at %3%") % attr.name % attr.pos);
+        }
+
+        if (url.empty())
+            throw EvalError(format("‘url’ argument required, at %1%") % pos);
+
+    } else
+        url = state.forceStringNoCtx(*args[0], pos);
+
+    if (!isUri(url))
+        throw EvalError(format("‘%s’ is not a valid URI, at %s") % url % pos);
+
+    Path cacheDir = getCacheDir() + "/nix/git";
+
+    if (!pathExists(cacheDir)) {
+        createDirs(cacheDir);
+        runProgram("git", true, { "init", "--bare", cacheDir });
+    }
+
+    Activity act(*logger, lvlInfo, format("fetching Git repository ‘%s’") % url);
+
+    std::string localRef = "pid-" + std::to_string(getpid());
+    Path localRefFile = cacheDir + "/refs/heads/" + localRef;
+
+    runProgram("git", true, { "-C", cacheDir, "fetch", url, rev + ":" + localRef });
+
+    std::string commitHash = chomp(readFile(localRefFile));
+
+    unlink(localRefFile.c_str());
+
+    debug(format("got revision ‘%s’") % commitHash);
+
+    // FIXME: should pipe this, or find some better way to extract a
+    // revision.
+    auto tar = runProgram("git", true, { "-C", cacheDir, "archive", commitHash });
+
+    Path tmpDir = createTempDir();
+    AutoDelete delTmpDir(tmpDir, true);
+
+    runProgram("tar", true, { "x", "-C", tmpDir }, tar);
+
+    Path storePath = state.store->addToStore("git-export", tmpDir);
+
+    mkString(v, storePath, PathSet({storePath}));
+}
+
+static RegisterPrimOp r("__fetchgit", 1, prim_fetchgit);
+
+}
diff --git a/src/libstore/download.cc b/src/libstore/download.cc
index eed630517..6e39330e4 100644
--- a/src/libstore/download.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/download.cc
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ bool isUri(const string & s)
     size_t pos = s.find("://");
     if (pos == string::npos) return false;
     string scheme(s, 0, pos);
-    return scheme == "http" || scheme == "https" || scheme == "file" || scheme == "channel";
+    return scheme == "http" || scheme == "https" || scheme == "file" || scheme == "channel" || scheme == "git";
 }