lix -

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2020-04-07	Add 'path' fetcher	Eelco Dolstra
	This fetchers copies a plain directory (i.e. not a Git/Mercurial repository) to the store (or does nothing if the path is already a store path). One use case is to pin the 'nixpkgs' flake used to build the current NixOS system, and prevent it from being garbage-collected, via a system registry entry like this: { "from": { "id": "nixpkgs", "type": "indirect" }, "to": { "type": "path", "path": "/nix/store/rralhl3wj4rdwzjn16g7d93mibvlr521-source", "lastModified": 1585388205, "rev": "b0c285807d6a9f1b7562ec417c24fa1a30ecc31a" }, "exact": true } Note the fake "lastModified" and "rev" attributes that ensure that the flake gives the same evaluation results as the corresponding Git/GitHub inputs. (cherry picked from commit 12f9379123eba828f2ae06f7978a37b7045c2b23)
2020-04-07	Backport libfetchers from the flakes branch	Eelco Dolstra
	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).