[Nix-dev] Why does fetchgit not look at the URL to determine the cache location?

[Shea Levy]

> On Jan 1, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 31 December 2014 at 17:50, Rico Huijbers <rix0rrr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When I copy/paste a fetchgit block from another file, and change the URL and rev without changing the hash, I expect the download to fail (and tell me the hash).
>> 
>> However, what actually happens is that fetchgit just looks at the hash, sees that *something* with that hash has already been downloaded, and happily proceeds with the rest of the script using the wrong source files. Now I have to go and do nix-prefetch-git every time.
>> 
>> Shouldn’t fetchgit build the hash from URL and rev, as opposed to the provided hash? Or am I doing it wrong?
> 
> AFAIK, it's the nixos hashed mirror that creates this behaviour.
> fetchgit itself will re-download if the _basename_ of the URL changes,
> but when the hashed mirror has a file with the given hash, it is
> downloaded instead.
> 
> So it's the hashed mirror that needs to take the basename of URL into account.
> 

No, the hashed mirror causes this for fetchurl, but for fetchgit the drv name is always “git-export” so even without the hashed mirror this is true (same output hash + same drv name = same output path).

> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman
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