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2006-10-28	* `nix-store --read-log / -l PATH' shows the build log of PATH, if	Eelco Dolstra
	available. For instance, $ nix-store -l $(which svn) \| less lets you read the build log of the Subversion instance in your profile. * `nix-store -qb': if applied to a non-derivation, take the deriver.
2006-09-21	* GC options in nix-store --help (NIX-15).	Eelco Dolstra

2006-03-06	* Regularise help text a bit.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-23	* Revived the old "nix-store --delete" operation that deletes the	Eelco Dolstra
	specified paths from the Nix store. However, this operation is safe: it refuses to delete anything that the garbage collector wouldn't delete.
2005-12-13	* Change `referer' to `referrer' throughout. In particular, the	Eelco Dolstra
	nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old ones are still accepted for compatibility).
2005-04-08	* nix-store: `--substitute' -> `--register-substitutes'.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-03-23	* nix-store: `--isvalid' -> `--check-validity', `--validpath' ->	Eelco Dolstra
	`--register-validity'. * `nix-store --register-validity': read arguments from stdin, and allow the references and deriver to be set.
2005-02-17	* `nix-store -q --tree' shows a tree representing the dependency graph	Eelco Dolstra
	of the given derivation. Useful for getting a quick overview of how something was built. E.g., to find out how the `baffle' program in your user environment was built, you can do $ nix-store -q --tree $(nix-store -qd $(which baffle)) Tree nesting depth is minimised (?) by topologically sorting paths under the relation A < B iff A \in closure(B).
2005-02-01	* nix-store, nix-instantiate: added an option `--add-root' to	Eelco Dolstra
	immediately add the result as a permanent GC root. This is the only way to prevent a race with the garbage collector. For instance, the old style ln -s $(nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate foo.nix)) \ /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result has two time windows in which the garbage collector can interfere (by GC'ing the derivation and the output, respectively). On the other hand, nix-store --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result -r \ $(nix-instantiate --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/drv \ foo.nix) is safe. * nix-build: use `--add-root' to prevent GC races.
2005-01-25	* In nix-store: added query `--referers-closure' that returns the	Eelco Dolstra
	closure of the referers relation rather than the references relation, i.e., the set of all paths that directly or indirectly refer to the given path. Note that contrary to the references closure this set is not fixed; it can change as paths are added to or removed from the store.
2005-01-25	* In nix-store: change `--build' back to `--realise'. Also brought	Eelco Dolstra
	back the query flag `--force-realise'. * Fixed some of the tests.
2005-01-19	* Change extension `.store' to `.drv'.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Re-enable `nix-store --query --requisites'.
2004-12-20	* Simplify the substitute mechanism:	Eelco Dolstra
	- Drop the store expression. So now a substitute is just a command-line invocation (a program name + arguments). If you register a substitute you are responsible for registering the expression that built it (if any) as a root of the garbage collector. - Drop the substitutes-rev DB table.
2004-02-14	* The environment variable NIX_ROOT can now be set to execute Nix in a	Eelco Dolstra
	chroot() environment. * A operation `--validpath' to register path validity. Useful for bootstrapping in a pure Nix environment. * Safety checks: ensure that files involved in store operations are in the store.
2003-11-18	* "Fix expression" -> "Nix expression".	Eelco Dolstra
	* More refactoring.