[Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

[Arseniy Seroka]

We have this.
Read about it in a "making patches" section [1]

[1]
https://github.com/jagajaga/nixpkgs/blob/addition/contributing/CONTRIBUTING.md

Sincerely,
Arseniy Seroka



On 19 May 2015 12:15:00 Florian Friesdorf <flo at chaoflow.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> nix channels are series of snapshots of nixpkgs that were succesfully
> build by hydra and we subscribe and update them via nix-channel - for
> users of nixpkgs this is great!
>
> As maintainers of nixpkgs and users who keep custom patches, we also
> have one or more local checkouts of git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git.
>
> It would be great if channel information would be available via git as
> well:
>
> - one branch per channel, git reset --hard to the latest successfully
>   build nixpkgs in this channel
>
> - tags (<channel-name>-<datetime>) for each successful channel build.
>
> This would enable us to base local customizations of nixpkgs on-top of
> successful hydra builds and therefore getting as much binary package
> support as possible, and would remove the need to additionally maintain
> channels with nix-channel.
>
> What do you think?
>
> cheers
> florian
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