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== Development tricks == | == Development tricks == | ||
=== Build a package added in a PR == | |||
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nix build github:nixos/nixpkgs?ref=pull/<PR_NUMBER>/head#<PACKAGE> | |||
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this allows building a package that has not yet been added to nixpkgs. | |||
note that this will download a full source tarball of nixpkgs. if you already have a local clone, using that may be faster due to delta compression: | |||
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git fetch upstream pull/<PR_NUMBER>/head && git checkout FETCH_HEAD && nix build .#PACKAGE | |||
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this allows building a package that has not yet been added to nixpkgs. | |||
=== How to add a file locally in git but not include it in commits === | === How to add a file locally in git but not include it in commits === | ||