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Will Dietz e89d02bf03 fetchGit: use "HEAD" as default ref 2018-02-28 16:34:34 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra d4dcffd643
Add pure evaluation mode
In this mode, the following restrictions apply:

* The builtins currentTime, currentSystem and storePath throw an
  error.

* $NIX_PATH and -I are ignored.

* fetchGit and fetchMercurial require a revision hash.

* fetchurl and fetchTarball require a sha256 attribute.

* No file system access is allowed outside of the paths returned by
  fetch{Git,Mercurial,url,Tarball}. Thus 'nix build -f ./foo.nix' is
  not allowed.

Thus, the evaluation result is completely reproducible from the
command line arguments. E.g.

  nix build --pure-eval '(
    let
      nix = fetchGit { url = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git; rev = "9c927de4b179a6dd210dd88d34bda8af4b575680"; };
      nixpkgs = fetchGit { url = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git; ref = "release-17.09"; rev = "66b4de79e3841530e6d9c6baf98702aa1f7124e4"; };
    in (import (nix + "/release.nix") { inherit nix nixpkgs; }).build.x86_64-linux
  )'

The goal is to enable completely reproducible and traceable
evaluation. For example, a NixOS configuration could be fully
described by a single Git commit hash. 'nixos-rebuild' would do
something like

  nix build --pure-eval '(
    (import (fetchGit { url = file:///my-nixos-config; rev = "..."; })).system
  ')

where the Git repository /my-nixos-config would use further fetchGit
calls or Git externals to fetch Nixpkgs and whatever other
dependencies it has. Either way, the commit hash would uniquely
identify the NixOS configuration and allow it to reproduced.
2018-01-16 19:23:18 +01:00
Will Dietz 428680b307 fetchGit: fix creation of uninitialized cache dir, let git create it
fetchGit test (as modified in previous commit) now passes.
2018-01-09 09:05:18 -06:00
Will Dietz 2e6f06c37e fetchGit: Fix handling of local repo when not using 'master' branch
Add tests checking this behavior.
2017-12-22 15:29:52 -06:00
Shea Levy eedbc4e06c
fetchGit: Ignore tarballTtl if rev is set and not in the repo.
Fixes #1697.
2017-11-24 06:09:24 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra d7da6c9ea9
fetchGit/fetchMercurial: Fix directory inclusion check
E.g. the existence of .gitignore would cause .git to be included.
2017-11-21 19:34:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a4d9574d9
fetchgit.cc -> fetchGit.cc 2017-11-03 13:55:31 +01:00
Renamed from src/libexpr/primops/fetchgit.cc (Browse further)