Update a package: Difference between revisions

imported>Fricklerhandwerk
m Fricklerhandwerk moved page Nixpkgs/Update a package to Update a package: Nixpkgs is now a category, no need to prefix the title
imported>Tomodachi94
Add --depth flag to clone instruction
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mkdir ~/devel/
mkdir ~/devel/
cd ~/devel/
cd ~/devel/
git clone https://github.com/your_username/nixpkgs.git
git clone https://github.com/your_username/nixpkgs.git \
    --depth=1 # Prevents cloning the entire history, which is multiple gigabytes
cd nixpkgs/
cd nixpkgs/
git remote add upstream https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git</syntaxhighlight>
git remote add upstream https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git</syntaxhighlight>