The `sparseCheckout` argument allows the user to specify directories or
patterns of files, which Git uses to filter files it should check-out.
Git expects a multi-line string on stdin ("newline-delimited list", see
`git-sparse-checkout(1)`), but within nixpkgs it is more consistent to
use a list of strings instead. The list elements are joined to a
multi-line string only before passing it to the builder script.
A deprecation warning is emitted if a (multi-line) string is passed to
`sparseCheckout`, but for the time being it is still accepted.
When maintainers override stages of `fetchgit' (e.g. `postPatch`) it
is very easy for them to accidentally leak the outpath-hash of their
current `stdenv` into `fetchgit''s output, and therefore into the
value they paste into `sha256`.
This is a problem, because the resulting expression will break
whenever any change is made to `stdenv` or when anybody attempts to
build the expression on a different platform than the one used by the
original maintainer.
Almost as much of a problem is the fact that CI **does not catch**
these problems. The `fetchgit` is run only once, then its output goes
into cachix, and all future builds (hydra, CI, ofborg) pull from
cachix.
Let's offer maintainers the option to check that they aren't making
this mistake, by passing through `allowedRequisites`. The default
value is `null`, but it might be worth changing that at some point in
the future.
It is also sometimes difficult to communicate to package maintainers
why their expression is problematic. Having `allowedRequisites`
passed through makes it easier to do this: "look, when I switch on
`allowedRequisites` your package breaks; are you sure you meant to
hardcode the hash today's `x86_64-linux.stdenv` into your expression?`
For an example use case, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/171223
The issue above is part of a larger problem with nixpkgs infra: there
large parts of cachix cannot be reproduced easily if they are lost.
Once something ends goes into cachix, we never ever again reverify the
procedure by which it was placed into cachix.
a67950f20b added `url` attribute
from `fetchurl` and therefore also from `fetchzip`.
We previously relied on `url` from fetchgit-based fetchers
to find the repo URL but now it will just return tarballs
in the case of `fetchFrom{GitHub,GitLab}`.
Let’s add an attribute to `fetch{git,FromGitHub,FromGitLab}`
to expose a repo URL consistently.
This is useful when running tools like NixOps or nix-review
on workstations where the upload to the builder is significantly
slower then downloading the source on the builder itself.
Deprecation warnings should not be used in Nixpkgs because they spam
innocent "nix-env -qa" users with (in this case) dozens of messages
that they can't do anything about.
This also reverts commit 2ca8833383.
This commit extends fetchFromGitHub with ability to fetch GitHub
repositories with submodules, so we can use the function consistently
with all GitHub repositories.
Note it doesn't change the previous behavior.
These environment variables allow using fetchgit with git:// URLs using
the SOCKS proxy technique described in 'Using Git with a SOCKS proxy':
http://www.patthoyts.tk/blog/using-git-with-socks-proxy.html
Briefly, GIT_PROXY_COMMAND is set to a script which invokes connect[1],
which reads SOCKS_PROXY, which might be pointing to a local instance of
'ssh -D'.
[1] pkgs/tools/networking/connect
If "fetcher" is a string, then Nix will execute it with bash already, so
the additional bash argument in that string was redundant and apparently
causes trouble on non-Linux platforms.
Hopefully fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/11496.
This is useful when `leaveDotGit = true` and some other derivation
expects some branch name to exist.
Previously, `nix-prefetch-git` always created a branch with a
hard-coded name (`fetchgit`).
This patch resolves https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6395. Deep
cloning is useful in combination with 'leaveDotGit' for builds that want
to run "git describe" to obtain a proper version string, etc., like the
'haskellngPackages.cabal2nix' package does.
The name detection didn't work for e.g. http://git.suckless.org/sinit/.
I tested the tarball builds now.
@shlevy claimed nixpkgs requires nix-1.8 features anyway,
so the additional check with message were superfluous.
I think it takes the recent N commits into the repository, which says very little,
even for wanting master/HEAD.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=18277
