[Nix-dev] git in nix is broken...

[Alexander Schmolck]

It's probably also worth mentioning that git/default.nix in its
current state does appear to make some attempt to rewrite the path to
basic unix utilities (like grep) to absolute paths in some places, but
not others and some of the existing patching is obsolete (e.g. it
tries to do so git-am which has been migrated from a shell script to
c).

E.g. lines 102 and following

https://github.com/smarkets/nixpkgs/blob/1a25495b6344c832dc3750dc9b8a95fd2d68583c/pkgs/applications/version-management/git-and-tools/git/default.nix#L102

On 10 July 2017 at 19:36, Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, git filter-branch failing because e.g. sed is either not
> installed at all or not in PATH is what I meant.
>
> I wasn't aware that this is "intended behavior", I thought that nix
> packages were intended to be self-contained other than explicitly
> declared dependencies
>
> The way I ran into this was by building a docker image for a python
> application that has a runtime dependency on git with
> dockerTools.buildImage (code is here:
> https://github.com/smarkets/marge/blob/master/dockerize.nix). Most git
> commands work fine, but not ones that use the few commands that are
> implemented as shell scripts. Pulling in the branch in the PR via
> fetchTarball fixes the problem, but what would be the preferred way of
> doing this?
>
> alexander
>
> On 10 July 2017 at 18:47, Eelco Dolstra via nix-dev
> <nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 07/10/2017 07:25 PM, Alexander Schmolck via nix-dev wrote:
>>
>>> ... because it appears to be missing dependencies like sed for
>>> commands such as git-filter-branch which are implemented as bash
>>> scripts.
>>
>> Broken how? What doesn't work?
>>
>> I guess you mean that some things fail if you execute with a $PATH that doesn't
>> contain the basic Unix utilities. This is likely the case for most shell code in
>> Nixpkgs.
>>
>> --
>> Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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