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by jbboehr 837 days ago
IIUC, you should be able to use it with git-remote-rad[0] via builtins.fetchGit. Flakes would probably need upstream support, though.

Seems to work for git-remote-hg, anyway:

nix-repl> (builtins.fetchGit { url = "hg::https://www.public-software-group.org/mercurial/lfapi/"; rev = "34366bf575c8c77c8d3b76d32940c1658cb948a4"; }).outPath

"/nix/store/8dwyms22iwy4fq0b1593i34m88jk574j-source"

[0]: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz/rad:z3gqcJUoA...
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chriswarbo 835 days ago
Yeah, Nix's fetchGit just calls out to git; which is great for seamlessly handling weird SSH setups and the like.

Nix itself has a plugin mechanism, but its rarely used (since it can harm reproducibility; and TBH that seems to be the only reason to use it, for those very rare situations that it's desirable)

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