[PuercoPop]

I use nix with flakes, have written a couple of flakes day to day use. I am not a nix power user. But based on my current understanding this statement seems incorrect

> Flakes are tightly coupled to Git.

How is it tightly coupled to Git if it supports Mercurial out of the box?

Other than using version control to determine what are the sources of the derivation, what does flakes lean on version control?

[nextos]

I meant this kind of issue: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/can-i-use-flakes-within-a-git-...

[PuercoPop]

That is what I was trying to say by

> Other than using version control to determine what are the sources of the derivation

I don't think that defaulting to using git to list the sources when inside a git repo means that it is tightly coupled to git. If one doesn't want to commit/stage the flake files in the repo one can do `nix develop .` and it works . It will take a little longer because it will copy the entire directory to the store iiuc.