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2020-05-05nix --help: Group commandsEelco Dolstra
2019-12-10Make the Store API more type-safeEelco Dolstra
Most functions now take a StorePath argument rather than a Path (which is just an alias for std::string). The StorePath constructor ensures that the path is syntactically correct (i.e. it looks like <store-dir>/<base32-hash>-<name>). Similarly, functions like buildPaths() now take a StorePathWithOutputs, rather than abusing Path by adding a '!<outputs>' suffix. Note that the StorePath type is implemented in Rust. This involves some hackery to allow Rust values to be used directly in C++, via a helper type whose destructor calls the Rust type's drop() function. The main issue is the dynamic nature of C++ move semantics: after we have moved a Rust value, we should not call the drop function on the original value. So when we move a value, we set the original value to bitwise zero, and the destructor only calls drop() if the value is not bitwise zero. This should be sufficient for most types. Also lots of minor cleanups to the C++ API to make it more modern (e.g. using std::optional and std::string_view in some places).
2019-12-05Make subcommand construction in MultiCommand lazyEelco Dolstra
(cherry picked from commit a0de58f471c9087d8e6cc60a6078f9940a125b15)
2018-02-13Fix #1762Linus Heckemann
nix-store --export, nix-store --dump, and nix dump-path would previously fail silently if writing the data out failed, because a) FdSink::write ignored exceptions, and b) the commands relied on FdSink's destructor, which ignores exceptions, to flush the data out. This could cause rather opaque issues with installing nixos, because nix-store --export would happily proceed even if it couldn't write its data out (e.g. if nix-store --import on the other side of the pipe failed). This commit adds tests that expose these issues in the nix-store commands, and fixes them for all three.
2017-05-04nix dump-path: AddEelco Dolstra
This is primarily useful for extracting NARs from other stores (like binary caches), which "nix-store --dump" cannot do.