nix-prefetch-github 5.1.0

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.

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

positional arguments:
  owner
  repo

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --fetch-submodules
  --no-fetch-submodules
  --leave-dot-git
  --no-leave-dot-git
  --deep-clone
  --no-deep-clone
  --verbose, -v
  --nix
  --json
  --rev REV
  --version, -V

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.

$ nix-prefetch-github-directory --help
usage: nix-prefetch-github-directory [-h] [--fetch-submodules]
                                     [--no-fetch-submodules]
                                     [--leave-dot-git]
                                     [--no-leave-dot-git]
                                     [--deep-clone]
                                     [--no-deep-clone]
                                     [--verbose] [--nix]
                                     [--json]
                                     [--directory DIRECTORY]
                                     [--remote REMOTE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --fetch-submodules
  --no-fetch-submodules
  --leave-dot-git
  --no-leave-dot-git
  --deep-clone
  --no-deep-clone
  --verbose, -v
  --nix
  --json
  --directory DIRECTORY
  --remote REMOTE

nix-prefetch-github-latest-release

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

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

positional arguments:
  owner
  repo

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --fetch-submodules
  --no-fetch-submodules
  --leave-dot-git
  --no-leave-dot-git
  --deep-clone
  --no-deep-clone
  --verbose, -v
  --nix
  --json
  --version, -V

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_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.