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Prefetch source code from github for nix build tool

Project description

This module implements a python function and a command line tool to help you fetch sources from github when using fetchFromGitHub.

command line example

$ nix-prefetch-github seppeljordan nix-prefetch-github
{
    "owner": "seppeljordan",
    "repo": "nix-prefetch-github",
    "rev": "603f42203db128a7aaa091cf34d406bf7a80e9f0",
    "sha256": "1wrvvy85x7yqj4rkgpj93cdnhalyhzpr8pmyca38v59lm5ndh2w4"
}

python example

Python 3.6.4 (default, Dec 19 2017, 05:36:13)
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import nix_prefetch_github
>>> nix_prefetch_github.nix_prefetch_github(owner="seppeljordan", repo="nix-prefetch-github")
{'owner': 'seppeljordan', 'repo': 'nix-prefetch-github', 'rev': '603f42203db128a7aaa091cf34d406bf7a80e9f0', 'sha256': '1wrvvy85x7yqj4rkgpj93cdnhalyhzpr8pmyca38v59lm5ndh2w4'}

available commands

nix-prefetch-github

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

$ nix-prefetch-github --help
Usage: nix-prefetch-github [OPTIONS] OWNER REPO

Options:
  --prefetch / --no-prefetch  Prefetch given repository into nix store
  --nix                       Format output as Nix expression
  --fetch-submodules          Whether to fetch submodules contained in the
                              target repository

  --rev TEXT
  --version                   Show the version and exit.
  --help                      Show this message and exit.

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.

changes

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_pretch_github 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.

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