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Alexander Bantyev 36b059748d Split nix-env and nix-store documentation per-subcommand
Documentation on "classic" commands with many sub-commands are
notoriously hard to discover due to lack of overview and anchor links.
Additionally the information on common options and environment variables
is not accessible offline in man pages, and therefore often overlooked
by readers.

With this change, each sub-command of nix-store and nix-env gets its
own page in the manual (listed in the table of contents), and each own
man page.

Also, man pages for each subcommand now (again) list common options
and environment variables. While this makes each page quite long and
some common parameters don't apply, this should still make it easier
to navigate as that additional information was not accessible on the
command line at all.

It is now possible to run 'nix-store --<subcommand> --help` to display
help pages for the given subcommand.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-03-30 09:46:28 +02:00
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contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc Split nix-env and nix-store documentation per-subcommand 2023-03-30 09:46:28 +02:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers Merge pull request #7534 from fricklerhandwerk/maintainers-goals 2023-03-13 14:01:15 +01:00
misc Add a setting for configuring the SSL certificates file 2023-03-17 18:32:18 +01:00
mk Merge pull request #8068 from DieracDelta/jr/compile_darwin 2023-03-20 11:17:46 +01:00
perl Fix building with GCC 9 2023-02-10 18:38:57 +01:00
scripts Merge pull request #7925 from cole-h/fixup-xdg-nix-env 2023-03-01 23:01:42 +01:00
src Split nix-env and nix-store documentation per-subcommand 2023-03-30 09:46:28 +02:00
tests Merge pull request #8084 from edolstra/store-docs 2023-03-27 15:46:18 +02:00
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.gitignore Clean up daemon handling 2023-02-23 11:31:44 -05:00
.version Bump version 2023-03-02 10:01:24 +01:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff Revert "Disable GC during coroutine execution + test" 2023-03-08 20:47:52 +01:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Generate API docs with Doxygen 2023-03-10 12:51:06 -05:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Add CONTRIBUTING.md 2023-03-11 22:14:14 +01:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix add flake-compat to flake.nix and use sha256 in default.nix 2023-03-06 21:11:24 +01:00
docker.nix docker.nix: add an option to include flake-registry inside docker image (#6750) 2023-03-22 20:55:02 +01:00
flake.lock add flake-compat to flake.nix and use sha256 in default.nix 2023-03-06 21:11:24 +01:00
flake.nix Filter tests/nixos from source 2023-03-24 14:29:28 +04:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile Generate API docs with Doxygen 2023-03-10 12:51:06 -05:00
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precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md Improve hacking.md 2023-02-13 12:00:00 +04:00
shell.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

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 to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.