
nixos tests are blended with other system configurations, hence their settings must be either enforced or defaulted. This particular setting is set via lib.nixosSystem as `system.nixos.revision = final.mkIf (self ? rev) self.rev;` which would mean that without this change no flake generated nixos could be blended with nixos testing. This setting was made previously constant in 169c6b4b1478a3a0c823c99ea39d4082f76a2708 in order to avoid pointless rebuilds of the testing VMs, but was set without enforcing it. (cherry picked from commit 8bbdff45816c657f679cd77c0a0dbca534a85bf3)
*** NixOS *** NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the purely functional package management system Nix. More information can be found at https://nixos.org/nixos and in the manual in doc/manual.