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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). |