[Nix-dev] nixos and nixpkgs repos on github

Corey O'Connor coreyoconnor at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 05:03:06 CET 2012


On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
>> For nixos the svn remote I'm using is:
>> [...]
>>     url = https://nixos.org/repos/nix
>
> Don't mix up nix and nixos:

That URL is the base SVN repo URL. That repo contains nix, nixos,
nixpkgs, hydra etc.
When setting up a SVN remote for git you need to specify the base URL
for the URL parameter. The fetch and branches parameters are the ones
that actually define where in the SVN repo the remote is pulled from.


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