[Nix-dev] "svn-revision" empty / nixos channel as branch?

[Rok Garbas]

Quoting Vladimír Čunát (2013-01-21 14:36:27)
> On 01/21/2013 05:12 AM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> > I'm using the file to maintain branches "channel-nixos" of nixos and
> > nixpkgs, so I can develop new features based on a supposedly more stable
> > base.
> 
> Oh, I'm using parts of those scripts as well. I was thinking of parsing 
> http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk instead (which would be more 
> bandwidth-efficient), but your solution was easier.
> 
> > Now as the channel only consists of nix expressions, no Manifest files
> > anymore, wouldn't it be sane to maintain it as a repository?
> >
> > One repo with nixos and nixpkgs as submodules?
> > Or probably better: nixpkgs as submodule of nixos?
> 
> It might be useful to be able to have one commit change both nixos and 
> nixpkgs. Dependencies between the repos aren't too frequent, but still I 
> think they should be "seen" somehow.
> 
> Vlada

maybe git-subtree might be a good candidate for this
https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree


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