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Let's first try if we can determine the Git revision from the .git directory and if that fails, fall back to get the info from the ".git-revision" file... and after that use something generic like "master". This should address #17218 in better way, because we don't need to create another redundant file in the source checkout of nixpkgs. I'm not going to route of falling back to using .git, because after 55d881e, we already have ".git-revision" files in people's Git repositories, which in turn means that nixos-version will report that old file every time even if the working tree has updated. Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org> Cc: @bennofs, Profpatsch Reported-by: @devhell Fixes: #17218
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-16.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-16.03
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
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nixos/ folder.
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