Hi, I did that a while ago, and somebody removed them, because of the potential noise that such branches can caused. Then I pushed the script that I made to keep track of the channel versions.
You can use this script in your nixpkgs working directory, run $ $(git rev-parse --show-cdup)maintainers/scripts/update-channel-branches.sh Then you can make an alias in your .git/config: [alias] fetch-channels = !sh -c \"$(git rev-parse --show-cdup)maintainers/scripts/update-channel-branches.sh\" which means that you can also do, from anywhere inside your working directory. $ git fetch-channels This will pull all the channel branches from nixos.org, and also look for the channels that are corresponding to nixos-version, and any channel that you have in ~/.nix-defexpr . On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Florian Friesdorf <f...@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 > -- > Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> > GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- Nicolas Pierron http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev