diff --git a/doc/coding-conventions.xml b/doc/coding-conventions.xml index e1853d47ce0..68b075959c9 100644 --- a/doc/coding-conventions.xml +++ b/doc/coding-conventions.xml @@ -256,6 +256,12 @@ bound to the variable name e2fsprogs in a package named hello-svn by nix-env. + If package is fetched from git's commit then + the version part of the name must be the date of that + (fetched) commit. The date must be in "YYYY-MM-DD" format. + Also add "git" to the name - e.g., + "pkgname-git-2014-09-23". + Dashes in the package name should be preserved in new variable names, rather than converted to underscores (which was convention up to around 2013 and most names