[Nix-dev] Nix moved to GitHub

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Wed Feb 8 14:25:28 CET 2012


Hi!

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> skribis:

> I've moved the Nix package manager from our Subversion repository to GitHub.
> The new home is here:
>
>   https://github.com/NixOS/nix

Cool!

> P.S. the migration has the side-effect of having caused Nix pre-release version
> numbers to drop from nix-1.0pre32111 to nix-1.0pre2596_fb95455 (since the latter
> only counts Nix commits).  Ah well.

I would recommend using ‘git-version-gen’ to automatically get
human-readable version numbers:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/build-aux/git-version-gen

Thanks,
Ludo’.



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