nix-prefetch-github 7.1.0

nix-prefetch-github

This command downloads the code from a github repository and puts it into the local nix store. It also prints the function arguments to fetchFromGitHub to the standard output. :

usage: nix-prefetch-github [-h] [--fetch-submodules] [--no-fetch-submodules]
               [--leave-dot-git] [--no-leave-dot-git]
               [--deep-clone] [--no-deep-clone] [--verbose]
               [--quiet] [--nix] [--json] [--meta] [--version]
               [--rev REV]
               owner repo

positional arguments:
  owner
  repo

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --fetch-submodules    Include git submodules in the output derivation
  --no-fetch-submodules
            Don't include git submodules in output derivation
  --leave-dot-git       Include .git folder in output derivation. Use this if
            you need repository data, e.g. current commit hash,
            for the build process.
  --no-leave-dot-git    Don't include .git folder in output derivation.
  --deep-clone          Include all of the repository history in the output
            derivation. This option implies --leave-dot-git.
  --no-deep-clone       Don't include the repository history in the output
            derivation.
  --verbose, -v         Print additional information about the programs
            execution. This is useful if you want to issue a bug
            report.
  --quiet, -q           Print less information about the programs execution.
  --nix                 Output the results as valid nix code.
  --json                Output the results in the JSON format
  --meta                Output the results in JSON format where the arguments
            to fetchFromGitHub are located under the src key of
            the resulting json dictionary and meta information
            about the prefetched repository is located under the
            meta key of the output.
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  --rev REV

nix-prefetch-github-directory

This command examins the current working directory and tries to figure out if it is part of a git repository linked to github. If this was successful the program prefetches the currently checked out commit from the origin remote repository similar to the command nix-prefetch-github.

usage: .nix-prefetch-github-directory-wrapped [-h] [--fetch-submodules]
                      [--no-fetch-submodules]
                      [--leave-dot-git]
                      [--no-leave-dot-git]
                      [--deep-clone] [--no-deep-clone]
                      [--verbose] [--quiet] [--nix]
                      [--json] [--meta] [--version]
                      [--directory DIRECTORY]
                      [--remote REMOTE]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --fetch-submodules    Include git submodules in the output derivation
  --no-fetch-submodules
            Don't include git submodules in output derivation
  --leave-dot-git       Include .git folder in output derivation. Use this if
            you need repository data, e.g. current commit hash,
            for the build process.
  --no-leave-dot-git    Don't include .git folder in output derivation.
  --deep-clone          Include all of the repository history in the output
            derivation. This option implies --leave-dot-git.
  --no-deep-clone       Don't include the repository history in the output
            derivation.
  --verbose, -v         Print additional information about the programs
            execution. This is useful if you want to issue a bug
            report.
  --quiet, -q           Print less information about the programs execution.
  --nix                 Output the results as valid nix code.
  --json                Output the results in the JSON format
  --meta                Output the results in JSON format where the arguments
            to fetchFromGitHub are located under the src key of
            the resulting json dictionary and meta information
            about the prefetched repository is located under the
            meta key of the output.
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  --directory DIRECTORY
  --remote REMOTE

nix-prefetch-github-latest-release

This command fetches the code for the latest release of the specified repository.

usage: nix-prefetch-github-latest-release [-h] [--fetch-submodules]
                      [--no-fetch-submodules]
                      [--leave-dot-git]
                      [--no-leave-dot-git] [--deep-clone]
                      [--no-deep-clone] [--verbose]
                      [--quiet] [--nix] [--json] [--meta]
                      [--version]
                      owner repo

positional arguments:
  owner
  repo

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --fetch-submodules    Include git submodules in the output derivation
  --no-fetch-submodules
            Don't include git submodules in output derivation
  --leave-dot-git       Include .git folder in output derivation. Use this if
            you need repository data, e.g. current commit hash,
            for the build process.
  --no-leave-dot-git    Don't include .git folder in output derivation.
  --deep-clone          Include all of the repository history in the output
            derivation. This option implies --leave-dot-git.
  --no-deep-clone       Don't include the repository history in the output
            derivation.
  --verbose, -v         Print additional information about the programs
            execution. This is useful if you want to issue a bug
            report.
  --quiet, -q           Print less information about the programs execution.
  --nix                 Output the results as valid nix code.
  --json                Output the results in the JSON format
  --meta                Output the results in JSON format where the arguments
            to fetchFromGitHub are located under the src key of
            the resulting json dictionary and meta information
            about the prefetched repository is located under the
            meta key of the output.
  --version             show program's version number and exit

v7.1.0

• Add -q / --quiet option to decrease logging verbosity

• Add --meta option to include the commit timestamp of the latest prefetched commit in the output

• Use content of =GITHUB_TOKEN= environment variable for authenticating with GitHub API

v7.0.0

• The output format changed. In previous versions the json and nix output included sha256 as a field. This field was removed in favour of a hash field. The value of this field is an SRI hash.

v6.0.1

• Fix bug in repository detection for nix-prefetch-github-directory

v6.0.0

• Drop support for python3.8

• Drop default arguments to fetchFromGitHub from json output (e.g. leaveDotGit = false;, fetchSubmodule = false;, deepClone = false;)

v5.2.2

• Add more info to error messages

v5.2.1

• Fixed a bug that broke the program for users without the experimental `nix-command` feature

v5.2.0

• Emit warning if unsafe options –deep-clone and –leave-dot-git are used.

• Improve –help output slightly

• Declutter verbose logging output

v5.1.2

• Use old prefetch implementation because of bug in nix-prefetch-git. See this github issue

v5.1.1

• Fix bug that broke nix-prefetch-github --version

v5.1.0

• Use nix-prefetch-git and nix-prefetch-url for calculating sha256 sums when possible. The application will fall back to the old method when nix-prefetch-* are not available.

v5.0.1

• Fix breaking bug in hash generation

v5.0.0

• Remove all dependencies to other python packages other than “core” ones

• Allow users to control debugging output via the --verbosity cli option

• All commands now understand --fetch-submodules and --no-fetch-submodules options

• Commands now understand --leave-dot-git and --no-leave-dot-git options

• Commands now understand --deep-clone and --no-deep-clone

v4.0.4

• Print standard error output of subprocesses for better debugging

v4.0.3

• Generated hashes now don’t have a “sha256-” prefix

• jinja2 is no longer a dependency of nix-prefetch-github

v4.0.2

• packaging release, no bugfixes or features

v4.0.1

• Fix issue #38

v4.0

• Make fetching submodules the default in calls to python routines. The CLI should be uneffected by this change.

• Remove default values for fetch_submodules in all internal classes.

• Implement nix-prefetch-github-latest-release command

v3.0

• major changes to the internal module structure

• introduction of the nix-prefetch-github-directory command

• code repository now functions as a nix flake

v2.4

• added --fetch-submodules flag

• Fixed incompability with nix 2.4

v2.3.2

• fix issues #21, #22

• nix-prefetch-github now accepts full ref names, e.g. refs/heads/master which was broken since 2.3 (#23)

v2.3.1

• Fix bug in generated nix expression

• Fix bug that prevented targeting tags with prefetch command

• Improve error message format in case revision is not found

v2.3

• Remove dependency to requests

• Default to master branch instead of first branch in list

v2.2

• Add --version flag

• Fix bug in output formatting

v2.1

• Fix bug (#4) that made nix-prefetch-github incompatible with nix 2.2.

v2.0

• The result of nix_pretchgithub and its corresponding command line tool now contains always the actual commit hash as detected by the tool instead of the branch or tag name.

• Add a new flag --nix that makes the command line tool output a valid nix expression

• Removed the --hash-only and --no-hash-only flags and changed add --prefetch and --no-prefetch flags to replace them.