nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix
Peter Simons 5d02f0e854 fetchgit: add 'deepClone' argument to disable shallow fetching
This patch resolves https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6395. Deep
cloning is useful in combination with 'leaveDotGit' for builds that want
to run "git describe" to obtain a proper version string, etc., like the
'haskellngPackages.cabal2nix' package does.
2015-03-10 13:14:00 +01:00

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{stdenv, git, cacert}: let
urlToName = url: rev: let
base = baseNameOf (stdenv.lib.removeSuffix "/" url);
matched = builtins.match "(.*).git" base;
short = builtins.substring 0 7 rev;
appendShort = if (builtins.match "[a-f0-9]*" rev) != null
then "-${short}"
else "";
in "${if matched == null then base else builtins.head matched}${appendShort}";
in
{ url, rev ? "HEAD", md5 ? "", sha256 ? "", leaveDotGit ? deepClone
, fetchSubmodules ? true, deepClone ? false
, name ? urlToName url rev
}:
/* NOTE:
fetchgit has one problem: git fetch only works for refs.
This is because fetching arbitrary (maybe dangling) commits may be a security risk
and checking whether a commit belongs to a ref is expensive. This may
change in the future when some caching is added to git (?)
Usually refs are either tags (refs/tags/*) or branches (refs/heads/*)
Cloning branches will make the hash check fail when there is an update.
But not all patches we want can be accessed by tags.
The workaround is getting the last n commits so that it's likly that they
still contain the hash we want.
for now : increase depth iteratively (TODO)
real fix: ask git folks to add a
git fetch $HASH contained in $BRANCH
facility because checking that $HASH is contained in $BRANCH is less
expensive than fetching --depth $N.
Even if git folks implemented this feature soon it may take years until
server admins start using the new version?
*/
assert md5 != "" || sha256 != "";
assert deepClone -> leaveDotGit;
stdenv.mkDerivation {
inherit name;
builder = ./builder.sh;
fetcher = ./nix-prefetch-git;
buildInputs = [git];
outputHashAlgo = if sha256 == "" then "md5" else "sha256";
outputHashMode = "recursive";
outputHash = if sha256 == "" then md5 else sha256;
inherit url rev leaveDotGit fetchSubmodules deepClone;
GIT_SSL_CAINFO = "${cacert}/etc/ca-bundle.crt";
impureEnvVars = [
# We borrow these environment variables from the caller to allow
# easy proxy configuration. This is impure, but a fixed-output
# derivation like fetchurl is allowed to do so since its result is
# by definition pure.
"http_proxy" "https_proxy" "ftp_proxy" "all_proxy" "no_proxy"
];
preferLocalBuild = true;
}