[Nix-dev] Working on multiple modules on multiple branches - single server

[Edward Tjörnhammar]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 07:59:44AM +0200, Christian Theune wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m working on a few things for my home server at the moment (Sensu for monitoring, Netatalk for TimeMachine) and I just started splitting my work into multiple branches so that I can submit the pieces individually.
>
> However, no I experience some pain while developing as I’m rebuilding the system from various branches all the time (editing locally, rsyncing the whole thing to the machine, then running nixos-rebuild -I …) which turns out will always disable my other work …
>
> Is there an obvious solution to this that I’m missing? Complicated git branch management?

Use flat topgit, i.e. each service/PR from master and one aggregating
topgit branch which has all your service braches in its .topdeps and
export that to your builder branch.

>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
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