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Previously we would completely refetch the submodules from the network, even though the repo might already have them. Now we copy the .git/modules directory from the repo as an optimisation. This speeds up evaluating builtins.fetchTree { type = "git"; url = "/path/to/blender"; submodules = true; } (where /path/to/blender already has the needed submodules) from 121s to 57s. This is still pretty inefficient and a hack, but a better solution is best done on the lazy-trees branch. This change also help in the case where the repo already has the submodules but the origin is unfetchable for whatever reason (e.g. there have been cases where Nix in a GitHub action doesn't have the right authentication set up). |
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.github | ||
config | ||
contrib | ||
doc/manual | ||
m4 | ||
maintainers | ||
misc | ||
mk | ||
perl | ||
scripts | ||
src | ||
tests | ||
.dir-locals.el | ||
.editorconfig | ||
.gitignore | ||
.version | ||
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff | ||
bootstrap.sh | ||
configure.ac | ||
COPYING | ||
default.nix | ||
docker.nix | ||
flake.lock | ||
flake.nix | ||
local.mk | ||
Makefile | ||
Makefile.config.in | ||
precompiled-headers.h | ||
README.md | ||
shell.nix |
Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.
Additional Resources
- Nix manual
- Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
- NixOS Discourse
- Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
- IRC - #nixos on libera.chat
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.