Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-22 Thread Florian Friesdorf
Hi Arseniy, On Tue, May 19 2015, Arseniy Seroka wrote: We have this. Read about it in a making patches section [1] [1] https://github.com/jagajaga/nixpkgs/blob/addition/contributing/CONTRIBUTING.md what's the status of that document? We also have: https://nixos.org/wiki/Contributing Is

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-22 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, May 19 2015, Peter Simons wrote: Hi Florian, What is the reasoning to have these in a separate repository? We don't want notification e-mails sent out every time the channel updates, which would happen if these branches were pushed to the main repository. Thx - I added

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-22 Thread Domen Kožar
github shows CONTRIBUTING.md when you open an issue/PR, that's the main reason I'd like to see it as an entry point to contributing to Nix family. The wiki page and nixos.org is something ~1% of contributing users will ever read. On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Florian Friesdorf

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-22 Thread Florian Friesdorf
There is also a thread mentioning contribution from march: Some bug tracker experience and RFC on improvements On Fri, May 22 2015, Florian Friesdorf wrote: Hi Arseniy, On Tue, May 19 2015, Arseniy Seroka wrote: We have this. Read about it in a making patches section [1] [1]

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-21 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 20/05/15 22:23, Nicolas Pierron wrote: 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

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-20 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 05/19/2015 07:36 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote: On 19-05-2015 12:08:30, Vladimír Čunát wrote: I'm uncertain if there might be some performance implications [...] From a git point of view, there won't be any performance implications besides that the tags get fetched on `git fetch` - which is

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-20 Thread Nicolas Pierron
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

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-20 Thread Arseniy Seroka
I've wrote that and nobody mentioned :( 2015-05-20 23:23 GMT+03:00 Nicolas Pierron nicolas.b.pier...@gmail.com: 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

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-20 Thread Harald van Dijk
On 20/05/2015 14:44, Vladimír Čunát wrote: On 05/19/2015 07:36 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote: On 19-05-2015 12:08:30, Vladimír Čunát wrote: I'm uncertain if there might be some performance implications [...] From a git point of view, there won't be any performance implications besides that the

[Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-19 Thread Florian Friesdorf
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

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-19 Thread Florian Friesdorf
What is the reasoning to have these in a separate repository? What do you think about adding tags like I proposed? On Tue, May 19 2015, Domen Kožar wrote: We have https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels that has branches that track latest channel updates On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:56 AM,

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-19 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Florian, What is the reasoning to have these in a separate repository? We don't want notification e-mails sent out every time the channel updates, which would happen if these branches were pushed to the main repository. Best regards, Peter ___

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-19 Thread Domen Kožar
We have https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels that has branches that track latest channel updates 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

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-19 Thread 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 f...@chaoflow.net wrote: Hi, nix channels are series of snapshots of nixpkgs

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-19 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 05/19/2015 11:22 AM, Florian Friesdorf wrote: What do you think about adding tags like I proposed? Listing the tags will quickly become unwieldy, but for a persistent reference it will be more readable to have channel-date than some random hash (or maybe channel/date or something). It might

Re: [Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

2015-05-19 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 19-05-2015 12:08:30, Vladimír Čunát wrote: I'm uncertain if there might be some performance implications when working on a repo with too many tags, but as this won't be in the main repo, we can easily chance it. From a git point of view, there won't be any performance implications besides