[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixpkgs] 58ccf7: it seems fetchgit does not like version tags

[Nicolas Pierron]

Hi,

fetchgit & nix-prefetch-git have support for any references including
tags which are just references, like branches.

refs/tags/tag-name

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell
<viric at viric.name> wrote:
> It happened some time ago, that we discussed that fetchgit somehow does not
> support tags (maybe some tricky syntax makes it work with them).
>
> nix-prefetch-git also had some issues.
>
> I don't know the status on those, but I think noone added tags support for
> fetchgit. Maybe someone can update on that status?
>
> Regards,
> Lluís.
>
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 02:47:18AM -0700, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>>   Branch: refs/heads/master
>>   Home:   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
>>   Commit: 58ccf70f479d6216781ecaf6fdb0329315ae689f
>>       https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/58ccf70f479d6216781ecaf6fdb0329315ae689f
>>   Author: Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl>
>>   Date:   2012-08-11 (Sat, 11 Aug 2012)
>>
>>   Changed paths:
>>     M pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/gh/default.nix
>>     M pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/logito/default.nix
>>     M pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/pcache/default.nix
>>
>>   Log Message:
>>   -----------
>>   it seems fetchgit does not like version tags
>>
>> I think they built ok on my system before, because I nix-prefetch-git'd them.
>>
>>
>>
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