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Maximilian Bosch 5b586575ac
nix/why-depends: fix output when not using --precise
On Nix 2.6 the output of `nix why-depends --all` seems to be somewhat
off:

    $ nix why-depends /nix/store/kn47hayxab8gc01jhr98dwyywbx561aq-nixos-system-roflmayr-21.11.20220207.6c202a9.drv /nix/store/srn5jbs1q30jpybdmxqrwskyny659qgc-nix-2.6.drv --derivation  --extra-experimental-features nix-command  --all
    /nix/store/kn47hayxab8gc01jhr98dwyywbx561aq-nixos-system-roflmayr-21.11.20220207.6c202a9.drv
        └───/nix/store/g8bpgfjhh5vxrdq0w6r6s64f9kkm9z6c-etc.drv
        │   └───/nix/store/hm0jmhp8shbf3cl846a685nv4f5cp3fy-nspawn-inst.drv
        | [...]
            └───/nix/store/2d6q3ygiim9ijl5d4h0qqx6vnjgxywyr-system-units.drv
                └───/nix/store/dil014y1b8qyjhhhf5fpaah5fzdf0bzs-unit-systemd-nspawn-hydra.service.drv
                    └───/nix/store/a9r72wwx8qrxyp7hjydyg0gsrwnn26zb-activate.drv
                        └───/nix/store/99hlc7i4gl77wq087lbhag4hkf3kvssj-nixos-system-hydra-21.11pre-git.drv

Please note that `[...]-system-units.drv` is supposed to be a direct
child of `[...]-etc.drv`.

The reason for that is that each new level printed by `printNode` is
four spaces off in comparison to `nix why-depends --precise` because the
recursive `printNode()` only prints the path and not the `tree*`-chars in
the case of `--precise` and in this format the path is four spaces further
indented, i.e. on a newline, but on the same level as the path's children, i.e.

    /nix/store/kn47hayxab8gc01jhr98dwyywbx561aq-nixos-system-roflmayr-21.11.20220207.6c202a9.drv
    └───/: …1-p8.drv",["out"]),("/nix/store/g8bpgfjhh5vxrdq0w6r6s64f9kkm9z6c-etc.drv",["out"]),("/nix/store/…
        → /nix/store/g8bpgfjhh5vxrdq0w6r6s64f9kkm9z6c-etc.drv

As you can see `[...]-etc.drv` is a direct child of the root, but four
spaces indented. This logic was directly applied to the code-path with
`precise=false` which resulted in `tree*` being printed four spaces too
deep.

In case of no `--precise`, `hits[hash]` is empty and the path itself
should be printed rather than hits using the same logic as for `hits[hash]`.

With this fix, the output looks correct now:

    /nix/store/kn47hayxab8gc01jhr98dwyywbx561aq-nixos-system-roflmayr-21.11.20220207.6c202a9.drv
    └───/nix/store/g8bpgfjhh5vxrdq0w6r6s64f9kkm9z6c-etc.drv
        ├───/nix/store/hm0jmhp8shbf3cl846a685nv4f5cp3fy-nspawn-inst.drv
        | [...]
        └───/nix/store/2d6q3ygiim9ijl5d4h0qqx6vnjgxywyr-system-units.drv
            └───/nix/store/dil014y1b8qyjhhhf5fpaah5fzdf0bzs-unit-systemd-nspawn-hydra.service.drv
                └───/nix/store/a9r72wwx8qrxyp7hjydyg0gsrwnn26zb-activate.drv
                    └───/nix/store/99hlc7i4gl77wq087lbhag4hkf3kvssj-nixos-system-hydra-21.11pre-git.drv
2022-02-10 14:26:00 +01:00
.github Use the nix command (and flakes) in the CI 2022-01-26 16:41:37 +01:00
config Run autoupdate 2021-06-01 11:42:38 +02:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc/manual Merge branch 'master' into bundler_drv 2022-01-28 10:18:29 -05:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers Update release script 2021-11-02 11:53:25 +01:00
misc completions: pipe stderr to /dev/null 2022-02-04 22:43:16 +01:00
mk mk/libraries.mk: fix trace-ld and trace-ar expansions 2021-10-08 22:59:42 +01:00
perl Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency 2021-11-27 23:11:11 +01:00
scripts install-darwin: dodge bash 3.2 command bug 2022-01-21 10:47:06 -06:00
src nix/why-depends: fix output when not using --precise 2022-02-10 14:26:00 +01:00
tests Merge pull request #6042 from pennae/fix-repl-a 2022-02-06 13:17:58 +01:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Added result and .vscode to gitignore 2022-01-15 19:17:40 -08:00
.version Bump version 2022-01-25 00:14:59 +01:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff Fix leaking pthread_attr_t 2021-11-03 22:54:16 +01:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Require lowdown 0.9.0 2022-02-01 10:44:19 +01:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00
docker.nix docker: var/tmp make add -p option to mkdir to also create parent dirs 2022-01-15 14:11:37 +01:00
flake.lock Add regression / performance tests against a fixed revision of Nixpkgs 2022-01-25 00:07:30 +01:00
flake.nix Use the nix command (and flakes) in the CI 2022-01-26 16:41:37 +01:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile Stop vendoring nlohmann_json 2022-01-26 11:50:53 +01:00
Makefile.config.in use LOWDOWN_LIBS variable 2022-01-30 20:59:58 +02:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md throw freenode down the memory hole 2021-05-27 21:48:39 +02:00
shell.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00

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